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I wanted to share a beautiful moment with you all. It is what inspired the poem.
At work I am doing a project where I am tackling seasonal affective disorder and January blues. I am taking entertainers, who are doing it all for free, to places like nursing homes and hospices, where people feel isolated and lonely. Especially after the festive season.
On Monday 13 January, along with 5 excellent entertainers, 1 being an opera/classical singer, we went to a nursing home, where many suffer from dementia.
When the opera singer started to sing, a nurse brought a man in a wheelchair into the room, who was pointing and crying... He then started singing along to Ava Maria. It was a truly beautiful moment, which had many in tears, including him and the singer.
The man cannon communicate, but he communicated through singing. The song triggered something inside him and he communicated. He sang, he cried. I saw passion in his eyes.
I was told he used to be in a choir and is a trained singer.
How beautiful that music can do this to people.
At the end of the event, an lady called Sue, who had been with her husband, who has dementia came to me and thanked me. Sue said she never gets to spend quality time with her husband anymore and this was like a night out for them.... Sue also said John, let her hold his hand as well.
It was Sue who told me about someone being in a bubble, when they have Dementia.
I was over whelmed to say the least...
