2/18/37 Miss [
954]'s letter to EC:
My dear Teacher:
Thank you so much for your inquiry about [
1058]. Both of us
appreciate it so much...just as we got such comfort from the
telegram and the reading. The surgeon expected to operate
yesterday...and I hope to see her at 2 o'clock today and
shall append a note at that time to this letter.
I shall append a note about the reading to this letter so
that Gladys can file it as a report and will not have to
retype. Of course, you can imagine what we have been going
through. I know it is faulty of me to suffer as much as I do
when she is ill like this...but I seem to lose a large part
of the control I have built up. My projection even goes so
far as physical...pains in the ear and tight glands...if you
please! Quite ludicrous, of course. I have had to take a
hard riding from Dr. Hardwicke about it...but truth to tell
he is not perfect himself in the matter and has confessed it.
You see the child looks so bad...the swelling at the gland is
enormous...so that her head inclines toward it...and the
sympathetic gland structure swells, too...so that the whole
neck is enlarged.
Taken from the viewpoint of soul chastisement the entire
condition is most interesting to me. If, as we tend to
believe, the body is subject to the individual will...she did
some unique picking. I was contrasting it last night with my
own choice (if we can go so far as to admit that this is
choice...and I tend that way)... And I see that in my own
choice the injury was deeper but was so secret...so hidden
...that even today after nearly forty years of life and
severe operative procedure my personal, bodily
characteristics are much the same as they were at sixteen.
Is not this all interesting? On the other hand the child
chooses an outward sign...producing scars on her face and
neck where everyone will notice them.
I do not want you to think that her previous reading did not
help her. It improved her enormously for a time. But like
all of us she fell by the wayside in the daily care that was
needed. She becomes a victim of circumstances apparently...
so often, too...even having dropped her family behind, she
got into a roommate situation in which she lost much sleep.
But all of us are determined to do better in the future. If
she will stick with us, Dr. Hardwicke will jack her up...and
we hope to retain the strong personality of the surgeon in
the picture. We were so much pleased that he endeavored to
clear up the infection without operative procedure in the
beginning.
Believe me, [
1058] is growing and striving spiritually. It
is most interesting to note how she responds. Her family,
for instance, descends in force at such a time although their
only part in the picture otherwise is to collect the weekly
allowance she gives them. Both father and mother descend on
the hospital...weep actual tears and moan over the
misfortune. [
1058] this time is trying to arrange (and so
kindly it quite touched me) to have them come less often.
She sees what they do to her...that they pull her down.
Then there is a rather nice aunt who comes...nice up to a
certain point. She is the more prosperous one of the family
and has been very kind at times giving [
1058] care after she
got out of the hospital. But her technique is to
criticize...whether the kid has a new hat or has chosen a
new hospital. Her thought is that [
1058] got it all free
last time at Medical Center...why didn't she return there
and get it all free again! One of the things she got free
last time was an extra gash in the cheek which had never
been punctured before!
So there's a bit for the funny papers...for you.
What a mixture of kindness, of "good intentions" and of
mistakes we human beings are!
The first opening for which she did not have to go under an
anesthetic was most successful...and there was to be a
further one yesterday. I look forward to finding her much
improved today. I feel a change in my own spirits and rather
take that as a sign.
Love to all of you...and many thanks, especially for the
effort made in getting the emergency check to us...and the
telegram.
[Following added in handwriting]
Dear EC - The operation seems to have been successful
although my personal impression of the moment is that another
may be necessary.
I shall be hoping and praying this is not so...and I know all
of you will, too...
Love [
954]
Report re Reading on 1058-4 taken February 16, 1937, by
Edgar Cayce. Comments by her friend, [
954]:
This reading is interesting in that a slight response is
noted in the treatments of ice bag and medication she was
under. This response was enough to keep the surgeon on the
case hoping he might heal it up without operating.
Unknown to the patient, the two doctors had been conferring.
The surgeon had already asked whether she would have a
vacation next summer...for he had discovered an infection in
some glands down near the collar bone...and he planned to
remove these at a later date. See in the reading we have
"BUT INSIST - when these conditions have arisen - that this
at least be given the opportunity for its expression in the
body-physical."
The further advice "Keep the attitudes in the right" was much
needed by the patient and those around her.
We should much appreciate an answer to the electrical
question... Is the radio-active appliance which we have and
which is sold by Health Home Remedies either a static or
galvanic type of electricity. If it is, we shall, of course,
use it as soon as we get her home.
2/24/37 Miss [
954]'s letter to EC:
HOTEL McALPIN, New York (Letterhead)
My dear Teacher:
You will be happy to hear that as I returned from lunch I not
only found your letter...but got a phone call from [
1058]
telling me she has gotten to her aunt's home safely...left
the hospital this morning. It looks as if this case is one
in which we should be on our knees thanking God for a good
surgeon...he found a truly bad condition with much wasting
away of gland structure and performed quite an operation.
Her reaction after being relieved was the most amazing you
could imagine...skin cleared and eyes bright almost as soon
as the ether fumes left her. My own only apprehension is
that we did not obey the reading by this removal...yet I am
grateful to have her spared and I was told that if the
infection had spread in its virulent state at any time in the
past two years she would have been done for...
P.S. I had a most beautiful experience about the money for
the operation of which I must tell you sometime. I'm
learning a lot...don't get bored with me. Every hour seems
to teach me some new truth...even to give me some new
evidence that I am not alone...
5/04/37 Miss [
1058]'s letter: "Please accept my apologies for
not writing you much sooner, and forgive my seeming
ingratitude. You have been very kind to me, and altho I have
been very lax in my correspondence I have not forgotten your
quick response to my call for help.
"As you know, I have had a pretty tough siege of it this
time. An operation was necessary but I do believe that here
at last is the operation to end all operations. The man who
performed the operation proceeded most competently; and the
results are more than gratifying. He is a friend of Dr.
Henry S. W. Hardwicke's and now a good friend of mine...
Regarding the statement 'Keep the attitudes in the right' -
this was amazingly easy for me, which to my way of thinking
shows definite signs of development." [She asked about the
galvanic electricity and EC wrote her it was the Wet Cell
Appliance.]
6/10/39 She obtained a Ck. Life Reading - See
1058-5.
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