Sunitas Story V1
Sunita Aggarwal · Cape Cod, by way of India
It spent the night inside a sack of rice.
Late one night Sunita Aggarwal dropped her VIBE in the toilet. She did not go to bed. She got a blow dryer, a heating pad, and a bag of rice, and she worked until seven.
Sunita Aggarwal, Cape Cod
The longest night
Nobody stays up all night for a gadget.
You drop a gadget in the toilet, you say a word your mother wouldn't like, and you order another one in the morning. That is what a gadget is worth.
Sunita fished hers out and emailed the founder of Resona Health. It was late on the East Coast for both of them. Mark L Fox wrote back anyway and told her what to do, and he told her one thing not to bother with: rice. Rice works on phones, he said. It will not work on this.
She did everything he told her. Then she did the rice too.
First
Shake it. Dry it. Shake it again. You can't open a VIBE, so that is all there is.
Then
The blow dryer, in short bursts, because too much heat is its own problem.
Then
Folded inside a heating pad, like something that needed to be kept warm.
Then
The sack of rice. Against advice. At that hour you try everything.
At seven in the morning she pressed the button and stood there asking it out loud. Is it working? Is it working? Is it working?
It came on.
“It was like I got gold.”
Sunita AggarwalThis page is about why a woman with a degree in economics and no patience for nonsense would spend a whole night nursing 2.4 ounces of plastic back to life.
Black Friday, almost three years ago
Ask her how she found it.
People do ask. They ask every time she brings it up, and she brings it up a lot. Her answer never changes.
“What does it matter? It found me.”
Sunita AggarwalIt was Thanksgiving weekend. The VIBE kept turning up in her feed, again and again, the way a stray cat keeps turning up on a porch. She had never heard of anything like it. She asked the holistic practitioners she knows. None of them had an answer for her.
So she had a talk with herself, which is how Sunita makes most of her decisions.
“Hey, Sunita. If you're not going to take a chance now, what are you going to do?”
Sunita, to SunitaThere was a thirty-day money-back guarantee. That settled it. She bought the device for a single setting on the list. Then she started pressing the other buttons, and found out she had been standing in the doorway of a very large house.
Who she is
Nothing she does will fit on a menu.
Sunita grew up in India and took her bachelor's degree in economics there. She worked for an airline. She came to America in the eighties and has been here about forty-five years. She spent thirty of those years running a business in what she calls her other life. When that chapter closed she went back to work for an airline, and the airline bent her schedule so she could go back to school.
She came out the other side a board-certified, licensed esthetician. Today she works on Cape Cod, and her clients know her as Threading by Sunita.
But ask her what she does and you will not get a list.
“I can't put it on a menu. It changes all the time. It's menu du jour.”
Sunita AggarwalShe bought an LED light for her treatment room thirteen years ago, when nobody around her had heard of one. She leans toward anything non-invasive, anything without chemicals, anything that makes other people say, what on earth is that? The man who owns the place where she works also teaches at a beauty school. Now and then he asks her to come give his students a class. She asked him once what he wanted her to demonstrate.
“Oh, all that sh*t you do.”
Her own doctor put it more politely. One day she asked Sunita whether she had ever been cross-country skiing. Sunita didn't see the point of the question until later. Most people ski in the tracks somebody else has cut, the doctor told her. You cut the track.
The part that's hers
She lives alone. One day she was on the floor.
Around the same time the VIBE found her, Sunita's lower back gave out. She tells it plainly. One day she was on the floor of her home, barely able to walk, barely able to get words out. She lives by herself. The scans she needed kept getting stuck in approvals.
Her family in India told her to get on a plane. Her sister works in the hospital system there and could line everything up: the scan, the physiotherapist, the spine surgeon. Sunita's answer was that she could hardly speak, so how was she supposed to fly?
A friend who is a nurse got her on her feet enough to travel. She packed a bag. She packed her VIBE. She went home and let her sister's people look after her.
When she came back to the Cape, her primary care doctor asked what all she had done to get herself back to wellness.
“I went to Sunita's wellness. With my VIBE.”
What she told her doctorShe is honest about the rest. The back has not gone away. Mornings are the worst of it. What she will tell you is that she keeps it in hand, that the little white device is a big part of how, and that she runs it every single day. Her word for how she feels now is not a medical word.
“I feel like I'm resurrected.”
4–6protocols on a normal day
2VIBEs: one on her, one in the box
2.4ounces, all in
What she runs, and why
She borrowed her best idea from a friend's feet.
Every one of these is a built-in protocol on the VIBE. From morning to night Sunita will run four or five of them, sometimes six. Nobody handed her a plan. She and the people around her trade notes, and the notes are the plan.
Low Back Pain
Her daily one. About an hour. This is the setting she started leaning on when the back went, and she has not stopped.
Tendinitis
A friend who bought a VIBE through Sunita ran this one for her feet, which is not what the label says. Sunita thought it over: tendons and ligaments are what hold a back up, too. She added it to her day.
Anti-aging
A coworker's pick. Her clients started asking what she was doing differently and whether they could have some of it.
The rest of the sixty
She uses this for that, so I try it for this. It won't hurt me, so why not? That is the whole method, in her words, and it is how she went from one setting to half a dozen a day.
Word of mouth, Cape Cod edition
They say she sounds like an infomercial.
She knows. She talks about this device as if her own business were riding on it, and she has heard the jokes. She doesn't mind them.
A coworker bought one, and now it gets passed back and forth between mother and daughter. Sunita has given VIBEs to her family in India. One of her clients bought his through her, and whenever he travels to Brazil, he tells her, people there try to buy it off him. The funny part is that the same man is a patient of Sunita's own doctor.
She calls hers a security blanket. It rides in the car with her. When Mark L Fox interviewed her for this page she was sitting in that car, and she held the thing up to the camera the way another woman might hold up a grandchild.
She was one of the originals, an early buyer, and this summer she traded her first VIBE in for the newest version. And because she has already lived through one night of rice and heating pads, she took precautions. A friend had bought a two-pack and wasn't using the second one. Sunita paid her for it.
The spare one sleeps in its box, just in case.
“When I believe in something, it's all or nothing. It's about how it can help anybody. Not that I'm Mother Teresa.”
Sunita Aggarwal
The VIBE, from Resona Health
$299 $399
A pocket-sized PEMF device with 60 core protocols and 70 expansion protocols built in, including Low Back Pain, Tendinitis, and Anti-aging. One button. No app, no subscription. Sunita bought it for one setting and now runs half a dozen.
- 2.4 ounces; wears on the included lanyard, in a pocket, or tucked in a bra, and works through clothing
- Rechargeable, about 5 hours per charge at full power
- Safe for people and pets
- Free shipping worldwide
- 30-day money-back guarantee and 1-year warranty
Thirty days, the same deal Sunita took that Black Friday. Run a protocol three or four times a week, more if you like, any time of day. If it does nothing for you, send it back for a full refund. It is not waterproof. Ask Sunita.
It spent the night inside a sack of rice.
You can tell what a thing is worth by what its owner does when she thinks it's gone. Sunita did not shrug. She did not wait for morning. She sat up with it the way you sit up with someone you love, and at seven o'clock she got it back.
Then she bought a second one, so she would never have to do that again.
She would tell you the same thing she told herself that Black Friday. If you're not going to take a chance now, what are you going to do? Thirty days.
The VIBE is an FDA general wellness device. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Individual results vary.
Nothing on this page is medical advice. The stories here are Sunita Aggarwal's own experience and those of people she knows. Protocol names are the names of settings on the device, not claims of treatment for any condition. Sunita received medical care for her back; the VIBE did not replace it. See your physician for any health concern.
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