In early July 1973, my car was hit and totally wrecked by another car. I woke some time later in the emergency ward of a hospital. There, X-rays were taken which showed broken bones and a fractured skull. When my wife arrived, she told the staff that I would be receiving Christian Science treatment, and she asked that no medication be given me. The doctor and nurse advised her that without medication I might not survive. A practitioner was then called to pray for me and I spent the next three days in intensive care.
Later a patient informed my wife that the nurse had started waking me at night to feed me medication in ice cream. When my wife requested that the nurse stop doing this, the doctor told her that I would never be mentally normal again, and that he wanted to conduct a series of tests. My wife firmly maintained our preference to rely radically on God's healing power. The doctor said he would consult another doctor who had witnessed an outstanding healing while working with a Christian Science practitioner on a similar case. After this consultation, the doctor agreed to continue on the case without prescribing medication.
Within several days my condition improved to such a degree that I was released from the hospital and brought home. I had been praying for myself as much as possible under the circumstances, and my training in the Christian Science Sunday School, as well as class instruction in this Science, certainly stood me in good stead. The practitioner made almost daily visits. Among the meaningful references she shared was this one from Retrospection and Introspection. In the chapter "The Great Discovery," recalling the discovery of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy states (p. 28), "I had learned that Mind reconstructed the body, and that nothing else could." What a comfort! Wonderful support also came from our branch church members, who read to me from the Bible and Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. The broken bones had not been set medically but were healed through prayer alone.
