Dancing in the Narrows by Anna Penenberg

Author:Anna Penenberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: 2020-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Sonic Boom

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

— Tahereh Mafi

It was April 2011, a year since Dana graduated and a week since she stopped seeing Dr. Koozik, and we were in the car again on yet another road trip. Four and a half hours down a long straight road through the desert, a mindless meditation, traveling to yet another healing treatment. This time we were driving to Las Vegas to see a man named Ed, an engineer who developed a sonic device we hoped would alleviate Dana’s inflammation and pain. The device was engineered so that sonic waves traveled in and around the body, stimulating healthy cellular function. The sound frequencies could go where oral medications couldn’t. Every cell in the body was simultaneously stimulated, which was something pathogens couldn’t tolerate. It was brilliant!

Ed was still experimenting with the effects his sonic treatments had on Lyme patients. We were following in the footsteps of Amber, a twenty-year-old woman with Lyme we’d befriended through the online Lyme community. Ed’s sonic treatments had significantly reduced Amber’s Lyme disease symptoms, and she’d regained her health enough to return to her life and only needed tune-up treatments once a month. When Amber first started the treatments, she did them for one hour, twice a day, for a series of four days at a time. She kept this up for one year. I had spoken many times with her cheerful, encouraging mom, Betsy, a no-nonsense woman who boosted my spirits. The camaraderie of another mom reignited my hope for Dana’s full recovery.

It was hot, dry, dusty, and windy when we arrived at Ed’s office in a strip mall in Las Vegas. He was a short, balding, kind, yet inappropriately frank, streetwise ex-New Yorker. Without ceremony, he greeted us and began immediately briefing us on the treatment.

“It’s very simple. For an hour you’ll listen to music or rest while the sound waves fill the room.” He turned to me and said, “Anna, why don’t you give it a try too? It will relax you after the long drive.”

Ed escorted us into the treatment room, the secret chamber. The device, a large chimney made out of speakers, sat in the center of the room with four brown leather recliners surrounding it. Dana and I each climbed into a recliner. Ed gave us noise reduction earphones to block the dull sound of the machine.

Tired from the drive, I fell asleep. Once again I dreamt that this was the cure. Dana is dancing in a ballet recital, wearing red taffeta and white voile. Her graceful limbs glide through the air effortlessly. At the end of the session, Ed came to get us. I was calm and felt a pleasant sensation all through my body. Dana was achy and exhausted.

When we checked in at the hotel, I was shown three worn but utilitarian suites and picked the best one. Even this nonsmoking room had to be aired out.

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