day of the sandwich

Posted on November 20th, 2008 at 8:39 am by admin

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I was going to call it “Breakthrough Day.”

We had been told that by around 60 hours of neurofeedback training, we should start seeing some results.

Controlling brainwaves is a lot like riding a bike. A lot of nothing happens, just floundering around, till suddenly you’re up and balancing and moving forward.

It was like that, after exactly 59 hours of training. It was August 14, 2008.

He sat down and focused on the game, no fidgeting, no complaining, no goofing off.

He benchpressed those delta-theta levels and the SMR levels into the normal range without sweat. His scores by the end of the brief session were Olympic material.

Then at supper, he stunned us all. I had made some turkey salad changes and shrimp, two things he would never eat, even in the face of starvation.

But on that day, he asked for a sandwich.

And then he ate it.

All.

Then he asked for a shrimp, “just to try it.”

We blinked stupidly several times, still reeling, then handed him one.

He said it wasn’t bad, could he have another.

We know it as The Day of the Sandwich.

The turning point of the year.

The next day, we started phasing him off his meds.

Trust me, you would have too.