I grew up in a family that depended on medical care for health. When I first experienced a bladder infection as a young adult, my mom, who had had this condition herself, told me to call our family doctor for an appointment. 

I saw the doctor that day and was given lab tests that confirmed the diagnosis. The medicine the doctor prescribed brought relief, but over the next two decades I had three more of these infections. Each was treated through the same medical process.

In my late thirties, I began to explore Christian Science, occasionally attending church services and reading the Sentinel and The Christian Science Journal. At the back of the Journal I found a directory of Christian Science practitioners—individuals who are engaged full-time in helping those who request treatment through prayer as taught in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.