Dancing With Dementia
Christine Bryden
Introduction
The authoress, although she has dementia, has written two books and is on the world dementia-stage.
In it this book she recounts the emotional and spiritual rollercoaster she found herself on immediately after her diagnosis and provides unique first-hand insights into how it feels to gradually lose the ability to undertake tasks most of us take for granted. more
Late in 1996 I started to experience hallucinations and these really scared me and shook my belief in healing.
I was exhausted and coping not at all well.
Finally I sought prayer from three friends after the service one Sunday in May 1997, two years after diagnosis. I asked them to pray that the hallucinations would stop.
I thought this was possible. I had set my own limits on God. Alzheimer's was too hard; hallucinations might be able to be stopped.
You see I had never prayed for my own healing although lots of people were praying for me. I thought Alzheimer’s was too hard and anyway I was no mother Teresa with a great mission so why would God bother with me.
I had my eyes shut so did not realise that a whole prayer scrum had formed around me of the whole congregation.
Of course they did not know I had only asked for the hallucinations to stop. They went for broke and asked God to heal me.
Only later, much later, was I told what had happened. All I knew was that the hallucinations stopped that night.
But then over the following weeks my brain began to get less foggy. I was able to speak much better than before. I was able to do much more than before, even go to busy places like shopping centres without getting too exhausted. I had no idea why!
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