Fibroid tumor healed
When I was expecting a baby, my husband and I worked with a midwife, and we planned to have the baby delivered in our home. However, during labor, the midwife decided that we needed to move to a hospital. There, an ultrasound was performed, and I was told I had a fibroid tumor. My initial reaction is best described by this sentence in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “A patient hears the doctor’s verdict as a criminal hears his death-sentence” (p. 198). We were grateful for the help of the hospital staff in delivering the baby, but I was filled with fear based on the diagnosis.
In a follow-up meeting with the doctor, he pulled out a book with drawings that showed how the fibroid would grow over time if I didn’t have it removed surgically. This time, though, I was better prepared. From the same page as that sentence I had remembered in the delivery room, another statement came to thought: “The materialistic doctor, though humane, is an artist who outlines his thought relative to disease, and then fills in his delineations with sketches from textbooks.” I asked the doctor what causes a fibroid tumor. He said that medical science didn’t know the exact cause.
After I left the office, I knew I wouldn’t be going back. I understood that the one and only cause was and is God, Spirit. I also knew that the drawings the doctor had shown me had nothing to do with what I am as the manifestation of God, Mind, and that as God’s expression, I have only spiritual substance.
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