When I was younger, I played many sports, including professional soccer in the major leagues in my country. One day in a training session that was attended by the most famous soccer team in Argentina, a team I had the possibility of being recruited by, I suffered a leg injury. The doctors diagnosed it as a torn ligament, and it prevented me from playing sports and walking easily. 

The kinesiologist who treated me told me that I would need to have surgery if I wanted to continue playing, but I refused the operation. I felt disillusioned by the medical field because I was told that my recovery following the operation would take a long time. The possibility of playing again seemed distant. I had to give up soccer, and I continued to have trouble walking for some time.

Later, I became acquainted with Christian Science and began attending services at a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, and visiting different Christian Science Reading Rooms in the area. It was in a Reading Room that I first found the magazine The Herald of Christian Science and read about someone who had experienced a similar injury and been restored through prayer. I also began reading the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science. I would read for hours in the Reading Room, and I always felt better.