Let the Party Begin! (Monday Moment ep. 455)
Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary
John O'Leary
4.8 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
What would you do if you knew today was your last? As a nine-year-old, this wasn't just a hypothetical question to consider, but a reality I faced daily.
Because of my weakened condition, the additional stress of surgery and blood loss presented the very real prospect that the next surgery could be my last.
With this in mind, my parents would make the evening before surgeries extremely special. They'd bring me a gift, my siblings would visit, we'd eat pizza, down milkshakes, and stay up late. We'd do our very best to ignore the painful reality before us. The focus was on me.
That's how I spent my nights when I thought they might be my last.
How would you want to spend yours?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast Monday morning moments, Easter Monday with John O'Leary. |
| 0:16.9 | I record these so that you and I can begin our days this Monday and our weeks this week in awe |
| 0:23.0 | and on fire with a burst of inspiration. |
| 0:25.8 | This episode is titled, Let the Party Begin. |
| 0:30.4 | Let the party begin. |
| 0:31.6 | It's going to be an example of what an abundant, effective, meaningful, truly significant world changing life looks like an action. |
| 0:41.5 | Sounds like a lot, but I think as we step into it, you're going to agree. |
| 0:44.5 | Here we go. |
| 0:45.8 | What would you do if you knew today was your last day? |
| 0:50.9 | Come on, friends. |
| 0:52.3 | What would you do if you knew today was your last day? |
| 0:55.4 | As a nine-year-old, this wasn't just a hypothetical question to consider, but a reality that I |
| 1:00.4 | faced daily. After being burned on 100% of my body and a gasoline explosion, I was given |
| 1:07.0 | less than a 1% chance of surviving the first night. |
| 1:12.0 | Although I survived that first night in the five months in hospital that followed, |
| 1:15.9 | the specter of death remained ever present during that time. |
| 1:20.0 | Never, though, was it more real than the nights before surgeries. |
| 1:25.7 | A severely burned patient skin will never grow back on its own. So doctors are |
| 1:31.5 | challenged with taking skin from one part of the body, it's called a donor site, and covering |
| 1:36.7 | the rest of the body with it. In my case, this was extremely difficult, dangerous, and time |
| 1:42.7 | consuming because the only part of my body |
| 1:44.8 | suitable was my scalp. |
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