Исцеление Курошевой

“In the first week of Lent, on the night from Saturday to Sunday, my daughter Zoya, 4 years old, felt severe pain in her stomach. Neither warm compresses nor enemas relieved the pain. The doctor found inflammation of the cecum and advised sending the girl to the hospital (where two of my children had died from surgery at different times within 2 years) in view of the possible need to perform an operation. We were hesitant to send the child; So a week passed, the situation was already dangerous; The whole stomach was filled with pus. Finally, still, not wanting to send our daughter to the Kronstadt hospital, we decided to send her to St. Petersburg, to the Prince of Oldenburg hospital. The hassle with the trip took up more time, and we left on Saturday, exactly a week later. The doctor in the hospital, looking at the sick child, said: “What took you so long? She has severe peritonitis and surgery must be done immediately.” The operation was performed; It was possible to remove the appendage of the cecum, and some kind of solid body was found, something like an orange grain, which had perforated the cecum (appendix) in two places. There was little hope for recovery, the doctor doubted and said: “Hopeless.” Then my husband and son and I went to the monastery of Father John. to Karpovka, pray, ask the priest to heal the girl (he had healed me before, during my lifetime, when my teeth hurt). In the monastery, at a general memorial service, we were advised to place a note about the health of the ill Zoe under the Gospel on the tomb of Father John. We took the advice; For several days we continued to pray and put a note under the Gospel for the baby’s health. A few days later, the doctor said that there was hope for recovery, that the danger had passed, and a few more days later, that the daughter would be alive. Then the patient began to slowly recover. Lent and Easter were still spent in the hospital. After Fomina's week they took the girl home, but she was still weak and had a cold. The temperature remained 40° for a whole week. We again asked Father John to pray over the phone, and she felt better. By June 5th, the wound from the operation had finally healed. I kept putting off writing about it, but misfortunes began to haunt us one after another. Then I decided to write. May the Name of the Lord be glorified in His saints. May the Lord forgive us our sins and have mercy on us. The wife of the clerk of the Artillery Training Detachment, Evgeniy Kuroshev.” P.S. The patient was treated by Dr. Kozlovsky, Dr. Kochetkov and 2 other doctors. (From the magazine “Kronstadt Shepherd” No. 9, 1913)