Musical Memories! We all have them: a song comes on the radio, or over your favorite web music channel, and it brings you right back to a certain time. I share some of my own musical memories here in this special series. Click on "Musical Memories" in the sidebar to read them as they're posted.
The room was dark, and I was exhausted. Thankfully for the gift from medical science known as epidural anesthesia, my body had finally relaxed enough that I was able to progress through active labor to transition after being stalled for over 12 hours.
At some point in the early morning, the spouse had hooked up his iPad and asked what kind of music I wanted. I don't remember how the music was picked out; I eventually found out that he had set up "Moody Blues Radio" on Pandora. This indicates that my mother had something to do with the choice of music, the Moody Blues being far and away one of her favorite groups.
I had had my epidural placed for about three hours and was at that point where I would have to start pushing. At some point in this whole process, I had a brief, lucid moment and tuned into the sounds in the room. I heard "Operator" playing and said to the spouse, "Hey, this is a good station."
"Yeah," agreed the others in the room. "It really is."
The
lyrics to "Operator" have nothing to do with childbirth, as far as I
can tell. They seem to be a song about the one that got away, a
long-lost love. It's the last song I remember hearing before my daughter was born and, when it came on over the oldies station today, it brought me back to that moment just months ago when she was about to come into the world. For that reason, it has landed a spot among my musical memories that I'm sure will last until the end of my life.
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