(Clearwisdom.net) My wife started practicing Falun Dafa in 1998. She dropped out of elementary school when she was in grade three, so it was very challenging for her to study the Fa. Even though she wasn't very diligent, she firmly believed in Teacher and the Fa.
At noon on August 27, 2008, I was working at a temporary job in town when I got a phone call from my son. He said his mother fell from a fruit tree and she was badly hurt, and couldn't move one of her arms. In the afternoon, my son brought my wife to me and I took a look at her arm. She couldn't move it at all and was in a lot of pain. I took her to the hospital and they took an x-ray. It turned out she had broken her upper arm and the bones were dislocated. The doctor said, "She needs to be hospitalized and she needs surgery. We'll put in steel nails to connect the broken bones." I said, "What would happen if she just goes home and takes a good rest?" The doctor said, "The results would be hard to imagine. The bones might not be able to heal or they might end up improperly positioned."
I said to my wife, "There are now two options for you. One is you take yourself as a solemn Falun Dafa practitioner. During this tribulation, you'll need to deny this persecution forced upon you by the old forces. You need to study the Fa and practice the exercises. You should look inside to dig out the root cause and remove your attachments. You need to firmly believe in Teacher and the Fa. Everything is arranged by Teacher. The second option is that you accept the medical treatments which are meant for everyday people. You can treat yourself as an everyday person, get hospitalized and have surgery." Without any hesitation, my wife chose the first option.
This occurred during the fall harvest season. I was busy harvesting corn, so I didn't have much time to take care of my wife. Her arm was swollen, and at the place of the bone rupture the flesh was bruised. It hurt so much that she couldn't lie down at night but only sat up. My wife didn't worry about her arm. She kept listening to the Fa and sending forth righteous thoughts. She wasn't able to practice the first four sets of exercises, so she did the meditation. Meanwhile, she searched for her attachments, like the attachment of fighting with others, the attachment to money, the attachment of jealousy, and so on. She did this for a week and the pain gradually diminished.
On day nine, I brought my wife back to the hospital for a follow-up. The doctors found the broken bones were healing in the right way. Everything had returned to normal. In a couple of weeks, my wife was able to help us with harvesting corn and do some light work. In about thirty days, her arm had completely recovered. How magnificent! My wife's experience validated the Fa, by showing that Teacher can help us with anything as long as we truly believe in Teacher and the Fa. Like Teacher said in his poem,
"When disciples have ample righteous thoughts
Master has the power to turn back the tide"
("The Master-Disciple Bond" from "Hongyin" II)
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