Meditation Times with Elma: Navigating the Troubles Seas of Dementia: a Love Story

AN ODYSSEY THROUGH THE TROUBLED SEAS OF DEMENTIA

- A LOVE STORY

It had gone to episodes of sudden confusion and rage,

triggered by nothing I could ever identify. Then paranoia,

people "upstairs in our home" to be taken care of somehow.

I told her: "We're in a new season. We've never been old

before. We've got to learn to trust God in this time too."

The discharging nurse's last greeting was: "It'll get worse . . ."

"Keith", she said: "Don't be afraid. It's going to be all right."

She was un...