No, I don't think you're trying to convert me, and I'm not trying to convert you :) just having a debate. My point was just that medical conditions improving without explanation can happen with or without prayer. Who knows what the deciding factor was, or even if there was one? Disability a bad thing... well, for me it's mostly cos I'm generally in a lot of pain. And probably also cos the first twenty-odd years of my life I was totally fit and healthy and active and now, well, I'm not, and that frustrates me. But I get what you mean - I know various people with disabilities (particularly who have had them since birth) who feel that the fact they're missing a hand or whatever is actually part of their identity, and if they could magically be "cured", they wouldn't go for it cos they wouldn't feel like them any more.