9/18/44 [
3218]'s wife's letter to GD:
"Thank you for your letter of September 10. It was kind of
you to write, instead of just sending us the announcement,
and we do appreciate it.
"My prayers include a petition for Mr. Cayce's swift and
complete recovery which will enable him to carry on his
immensely important task of helping suffering human beings
who need the help which only he is able to give.
"You see, because so many physicians have TOLD me, and
INTIMATED to my husband that multiple sclerosis was an
incurable and a progressive malady, I know what it is to be
denied all REASON to hope, yet I have gone on hoping when
there seemed to be no hope. My faith seemed justified when I
read Mr. Sugrue's book, telling of Mr. Cayce's triumph over
disease which physicians had despaired of.
"People in our, my husband's and my position, are accustomed
to having our hopes dashed, but never quite killed. We live
on hope deferred. Just because my husband has not seemed to
make progress under treatment given in the first reading does
not mean that the READING is at fault, nor that WE are at
fault. It means that somewhere along the line, our
interpretation of the reading has been in error, and I
believe that the Check reading will set us straight. I
believe, and my husband believes, that Mr. Cayce can help
him, and I do not believe that, if God spares Mr. Cayce to
many more years of service to humanity, Mr. Cayce will refuse
to do all in his power to help my husband. I do not think
that Mr. Cayce will be willing to have my husband drag out
another year while waiting for his help.
"I believe that something has been wrong with the lamp that
we have been using, but I believe that Mr. Cayce, in a Check
reading can tell us what it is, and how to rectify our
mistake. We have followed every suggestion as to the
treatment: green glass just so far from the body, the oils
in massage, the diet, the Calcios, implicitly. Our mistake
was in not asking for a Check reading sooner. But my husband
felt that we had not given the treatment enough time. Now,
if the Check reading could tell us exactly what sort of lamp
to use, (or even whether the lamp we bought and have used was
at fault) and whether, if, under present wartime conditions
we are unable to obtain the correct kind, then where we might
have the treatments given, (or is that asking too much even
of the seemingly miraculous river which Mr. Cayce taps)? And
then my husband's bowels are giving him much distress, and I
wonder if the reading could tell us what to do or to have
done for that. These two points are the ones I should like
to have cleared up, but my husband's letter with his case
history had some more, I think.
"I am also eager to have a life reading for my husband, and
one for myself, and wonder if that would not be another way
of approach to our problem. Of course, I quite see that life
readings are superceded in importance by the physical
readings, and I suppose it may be rather a long time before
Mr. Cayce can get to them, but if the pressure ever lifts so
that he can find time for Life readings, please let me know
what information he needs.
"My hope is that when the war ends my husband may see Mr.
Cayce.
"My husband is a brilliant person whom people really love,
but he is, at the age of forty-five, still writing
advertising copy like any youngster just out of college. If
he had the ability to be MOBILE, he would be an important
force for good in the world. As matters are, he sits at his
desk at the Plant (and no one who has not gone through it
will know the sheer physical effort it is for him to pull his
heavy stiff body along just to get to and from his desk) from
7:30 A.M. until 6:10 P.M. EVERY day of the year, save
Saturday afternoons, Sundays, Christmas Day, and a two week
vacation. The office force is on the same wartime schedule
as the factory, which means that he works every day, all day,
even the fourth of July, Labor Day, New Year's, etc. It is a
routine which is hard on even the men in perfect health. He
does not complain, but when I get him at night his face is
grey with fatigue. He weighs 132 pounds, and is six feet
tall. He is tired all of the time, but determined. He is
determined not to be more of a burden to anyone that he need
be, and he has courage of the highest order. I feel that it
is right for him to carry on his work as long as possible. I
agree with him in that, for while he takes his place in the
world as the breadwinner for the family he feels that he is
necessary, a part of the living and not of the dead. I think
he feels that if he had to stop work, life might just as well
end.
"But every move in our life is thought out ahead and planned
for. There can be no extemporizing as we go along, and if
one of the jigsaw pieces of our plans falls out, the whole
carefully built structure collapses. For example, going to
his barber, or to his dentist, or to his optometrist are all
as carefully thought out to the last detail as an expedition
to Africa, and if it is a very hot day or a rainy or icy or
snowy one, the whole expedition must be abandoned.
"This has been a very long letter, and I hope that I haven't
seemed too much of a nuisance to you, but I do want you to
see that our need is desperate, and we are clinging to Mr.
Cayce in a hope almost too big to be put into words. I pray
that he may help us soon..."
5/14/45 [
3218]'s letter to GD: "Last September you wrote my
wife that it was impossible to give me an appointment for a
Check reading by Mr. Cayce because of the latter's ill
health. You cashed my check and suggested that I write
later.
"I hope Mr. Cayce is feeling better now and will be able to
give me the Check reading that was originally promised..."
5/18/45 GD returned [
3218]'s check, and sent forms, sample DL
and WRE.
GD's note: In Dr. Walter N. Pahnke's 7/60 breakdown of 69
cases of multiple sclerosis from the Edgar Cayce records,
Case [
3218] was classified in Group I.
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