every minute of it.” She joined a couple waves designed to interrupt the messages alternative steps, tells me which way to go.
of classes, namely Mary and Don Bryant’s to the brain. “I have a remote control to He always makes sure I have the best time.”
as well as Mary’s son (none other than increase or decrease the intensity, so I And it might surprise Lynn that Neville
Neville Fitzgerald). She says: “ I watched guess you can really say I am wired for himself has this to say. “I fi rst met Lyn in my
Nev’s advanced class in awe. I loved the sound!” she adds with a laugh. Mom’s class a couple of years back and she
moves, the music, it was heaven to me.” soon turned into a lively member! It was a
With her best friend Joyce in tow, Line The result was instant. “I was able to hold a big surprise to us when she said she had
dancing proved to be hard and challenging knife and fork for the fi rst time ever as soon to go into hospital for a brain operation...
but felt fantastic. Lynn says: “Remembering as I was switched on. Another dream that And an even bigger surprise when she came
and coordinating steps are things very hard became a reality in a moment.” back with nuts and bolts and superglue
for me, but the laughs came thick and fast holding her together. Since then she has
and that a new experience.” She soon found Three weeks later, Lyn went back to Line joined my Wednesday class which does
that the more classes she went to, the more dancing, feeling awful but thrilled to make harder than the average dances and I
she wanted to dance and enjoy her time it and not wanting to look back. expected her to fi nd it too tough but she’s
with other dancers. stuck with it and copes fantastically well.
“I have come across so much negativity, She’s always determined and is a lesson to
Then, just a she was beginning to get more have been an outcast and have suffered us all in pushing on through adversity.”
confi dent, Lynn made a serious decision. with depression most of my life but I have
She says: “I opted for brain surgery as I always tried to keep positive, to laugh at Lynn know that rough times and diffi culties
was deteriorating and could no longer cope. myself because when you cry, you do it are still on the horizon. She tells me that
This would be my biggest challenge of them alone.” She adds: “There seemed no place since she came back from the CBA this
all, it would either make me or break me.” for me in society until Line dance came year, she has started getting seizures, but
The operation was deep brain stimulation in my life.” Lynn is keenly aware of the she knows that her Line dance friends will
and was still relatively new science. “I was importance of her dance instructors. “Angie always be there for her. “They help me in
very apprehensive and the timing could teaches me and always greets me with a hug more ways than I could ever describe and
have been better as my husband had major and a kiss, it makes me feel instantly better. people like Nev, Mary, Don and Angie have
heart surgery about the same time.” The She helps me with steps, I always have a done an extraordinary thing for me. They
operation lasted seven hours and involved brilliant time.” As for Neville she says: “ have made me feel NORMAL. Everyone is
switching electrodes into the brain from Nev is a big international name now and good and kind to me, the way real family
wires attached to a battery pack connected his choreographies are just amazing, but and real friends are. They have given me a
to Lynn’s body. This creates some electric hard for me. He always helps me, gives me new lease of life.”
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