If you were suffering and had lived in Jesus' time, wouldn't you have reached out to Christ for healing? You still can. The Christ is still just as real, just as powerful, just as able to heal now as when Jesus was here.
I had so many things to do: finish work on my daughter's farm records before taking them to the tax preparer, clean up the mess in the kitchen from the previous night's disaster with the wafflemaker, shower, dress, and so forth.