A Story about JaeJoong's healing voice (by livingfree on JYJ3)

Just wanted to share a personal story—-I work w critically-ill young patients (from premature infants to babies of about a year old) and often they are in a lot of pain (because of the illnesses & medical treatments). As a big believer in music therapy (due to my frustrated music education background), sometimes I’ll play soft music (usually classical or lullabies) to soothe them. It actually worked fairly well since they used to give me some of the difficult (translation: crabbiest, impossible to calm) babies that others could not handle. I even compiled a list of my favorite classical music for work that I’ve judged as “most effective” for them. Talk about music soothing the savage beasts :D

About a year ago, I started to play some quiet DBSK5 and JYJ ballads instead (more for my own enjoyment than anything) and to my surprise, the babies calmed as quickly as they do to classical music. Upon closer analyzing and testing, I discovered that the “most effective” calming songs are either JJ-solos or songs where JJ dominated in singing parts. The most extreme examples included when I had a baby going through severe narcotic-withdrawal (think “cold-turkey” for a heavy drug addict) that we were trying to wean off the drugs. Poor mite was inconsolably screaming his head off for hours, his nurse was tearing her hair out almost in tears herself and everyone around said their nerves were shot and frustrated at their inability to calm him despite taking turns holding him the whole day. After doing what I needed to do task-wise, I turned down the lights, turned on my JJ music on low and just held him—within less than 30minues he fell asleep and stayed soundly asleep the rest of the night even through his feedings and diaper changes. When I returned the next day, I heard that he slept till mid-morning but they actually had to re-up his narcotics to calm him once he woke up (since they could not calm him again) about 6 hrs after I (and JJ’s music therapy) left. Another similar case happened involving a baby girl that was inconsolable due to colic and just “demonish crabbiness” (as my colleagues dubbed it)—-since I was free for the early part of the shift, I volunteered to help and basically did the same thing with her as I did with the other boy, i.e. lights down, turn on JJ music and held her on my lap. Within 15mins, she fell asleep and stayed so after I put her down till next morning.
Its always funny to me when other nurses/doctors will peek into my rooms and say “I can’t believe how quiet your babies are. What music are you playing to them? He has a really beautiful voice. ” or “Her babies are always quiet. Nice music, btw.” Apparently, it’s JJ’s “healing voice” that the sick babies are responding to. Needless to say, I’ve compiled a much-used JJ songs for work and for myself (when I’m feeling down and needs some comforting myself). So no matter what happens, on behalf of my sick little patients, I’m grateful for Jaejoong’s (and JYJ’s) beautiful music.

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