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His Y is e sweet and soothing sounds emanate and fill the room. Her fingers magically hit the keys and keep up with her tapping toes. Patients don't expect music when they walk into a hospital. The Angelic voice reaches ears from the cancer Wing to the rehab facility.
Music therapy is a field that is, uh, growing enormous. Gone is the pungent smell of life on the brink and the look of hopelessness on faces. Deor Elaine has a gift, whether it's that welcoming smile, rich voice, or the power of her profession. Music can draw tears; it can create laughter. People can reminisce. It goes where words cannot.
And it was the music, not words, that led Lane into a battle on her own personal journey. I was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 34. I ended up volunteering to bring the music to others here and was hired within 6 months, and that was in 1983. Some 27 years later, Dr. Deor Elaine, director of music therapy at Cleveland's University Hospital's Case Medical Center, still pushes that aging cart trudging up and down Hospital halls.
There's everything on that cart, from A to Z: drums, tambourines, uh, their tone [Music] chimes. The instruments, the songs, love, and laughter help heal. It makes it so much easier to move your hurting parts when you're doing it to a rhythm rather than jerking through your pain.
Three weeks of intense rehab at Hannah House is helping Hinda regain movements in her arms and legs after a terrible fall. "I used to dance. Today, a memory from the past brought to the present once again."
Oh yeah, and in the Ireland Cancer Center, another brave soul awaits the next round of chemotherapy: pancreatic cancer, bladder cancer. Daniel and his family are fighting. "Two months, almost two months, been going through a terrible sickness."
But for a few minutes, his own sounds drown out the beeping machines. The bandages and tubes are forgotten while family leans on one another and Deoria Lane. They feel themselves, and I can ask for nothing more than that. "Hallelujah, I needed to let that out."
Yeah, while people sing Lane's praises, theor is incredible. She really is. She continues introducing people to the power of music as medicine. "It has been the joy of my life. Over my head, names might eventually be forgotten, faces even blur over time, but it’s these sounds, torious songs of healing, that will stay with these patients forever."
In Kyoga County, Harrison Ho, The Ohio News Network.