Testimony of Healing October 26, 1998 Issue

No ill effects from premature birth

Patti Sue Hansen

While I was pregnant with our first son, my husband and I had decided to wait until I was closer to term before we had a telephone installed in our military housing. We felt the temptation to call friends and family on the other side of the country would be too great!

The day after Christmas, though, I was doing some errands and found myself outside the business office of the local telephone company. The thought came strongly to go inside and arrange to have a phone installed. I hesitated, because the baby wasn't due until the end of March, and this was going against the agreement my husband and I had made to wait. But the thought was insistent, so I went inside and filled out the necessary forms. The person who helped me indicated, to my relief, that it would be at least four to six weeks before our telephone would be installed.

That night I told my husband what I had done. Because of the delay in receiving service, he thought I had done the right thing. Later that night I started not feeling too well, with some low back pain and just a general malaise. Though I didn't feel much better the next morning, I assured my husband that I would be fine and that he should go on to work. The nearest pay phone was about a quarter of a mile away, and there was almost three feet of snow on the ground.

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