Testimony of Healing September 21, 1981 Issue

Our youngest son was born with a condition...

PATRICIA G. DUSENBURY

Our youngest son was born with a condition diagnosed by a prominent pediatrician as hypo-gammaglobulinemia, a very serious blood condition. From the time he was born we were just barely able to keep him alive through medical treatment. Finally, when the boy was five, doctors advised us to move from our home in Maine to Arizona where the dry weather, it was hoped, would help lessen this child's constant sicknesses. However, the move did not bring improvement. In fact, the treatment our son received weekly from a physician produced adverse mental effects.

Thoroughly disillusioned, my husband and I finally decided to completely stop the program that the doctors had instituted for our child. This was about the time that I earnestly started to study and apply the teachings of Christian Science in my daily life.

One Wednesday afternoon, shortly after we had made the decision to cease using the recommended drugs, our son became quite ill with a severe earache. We knew that drugs were not the answer because of the multitude of bad side effects that our child had experienced when we were using the prescribed medication. I gathered up the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and sat by the youngster's bedside to pray and read to him. In a short while he fell asleep. As I was preparing dinner for the family, I continued my prayer, seeing this child as God had created him— whole, pure, and free.

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