It was early when we arrived in the city, so we first had breakfast, after
which I was introduced to Dr. Seversen. I said to him, "So you are the
doctor who is going to set the bones in that arm?" But he said, "It can't
be done; the arm will have to be amputated." I said, "That suggestion has
been made to me before, and that arm is not going to come off." While we
were talking several other doctors had come in--some thirteen or fourteen
in all. They said. "We will show you the Xray pictures"--hoping to convince
me that I was wrong. But I answered, "Xray pictures or no Xray pictures,
that arm is not going to be amputated." However, they protested and argued
that gangrene would set in--if it had not already done so. I said, "I will
ask God Almighty to not let that happen." Then turning to the doctors, I
said, "Shame on you doctors; if you cannot do it, I can, only I have no
license...." And to Dr. Seversen I said, "Will you do it? Tell me quick,
for if you will not, I will take him away from here." The doctor replied,
"I will."
I said to Dr. Seversen, "I would like to go along with you to see whether
you know how to do it." Eight doctors were also present. While the doctor
was drilling a hole in the protruding bone, red blood spurted out of it,
and I said, "Praise the Lord!" One of the doctors standing by said, "How do
you know fhat that looks good?" I made no reply, but looked at him with a
grin.
During his stay in the hospital I visited the young man from time to time.
One day I asked the doctor how he was getting along with Elder, and he
answered, "Getting along good only the sore doesn't quit running as rapidly
as I would like to have it." Then I ventured, "Have you looked at his
back?" He asked, "Tuberculosis of the spine?" I replied, "You had better
look."
The next time I was there he said, "There is no tuberculosis about him now;
he is well, when did he have it?" Then I told him that five years previous
to this time, when a lad of fourteen, he was sick and I prayed for him and
the Lord healed him. (Dr. Seversen did a good job on that young man's arm
and the Lord did the finishing.) Mr. Larson has a good strong arm today and
is employed in a service station in Elbow Lake, Minnesota.
Two years later I visited Dr. Seversen. When he saw me, he stuck both arms
up and said, "Here comes the man with the iron nerve." I answered him, "No,
here comes the man with a little good common sense and faith in God
Almighty." "Yes," he said, "common sense, but I thought it could not be
done, when it was in such a mess and had been broken so long." I answered
him, "Yes, but a good arm is better than an iron hook on it." He said,
"Indeed, but I did not think it could be done." (I have nothing against
doctors, but the Lord can do what men cannot do.)
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