Hello, my friends and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast Monday morning moments with John O'Leary.

We record these each week so that you and I can begin these weeks in awe and on fire with a burst of inspiration.

I think we need some inspiration during these days we live in.

So we're calling this one the old guy in room 606.

Homeless guy, single mom, burn survivor, wealthy person immigrant regardless the intent are quick judgments

and descriptors for others almost always falls way short of fully describing another human

being several weeks ago during an overnight shift at a hospital, I witnessed the downside of labels.

And yet, minutes later, I saw the healing power that comes when we more fully embrace the humanity of the person directly in front of us.

Let me tell you more about it.

Seated next to my dad during yet another hospitalization for him, I went out to the

nurse station to inquire about some more medicine. My dad was writhing in pain, shifting awkwardly in

his bed with dyskinesia, cognitively confused, and completely unable to verbalize any of his

struggles. And so, I went out to the hallway, found someone charting, explained the situation, and asked if she could track down our nurse.

My dad needed some medicine.

She nodded without really even looking up from her work.

She barked into the break room and said, hey, the old guy in 606 needs some more medicine.

The old guy in room 606.

Well, the old guy in room 606 has battled progressive neurological disease.

It's called Parkinson's disease with profound

courage for more than three decades. He has never complained as the disease has robbed him

of his ability to work and earn and drive and ambulate and speak. He has never complained

about the constant chronic pain he's experienced as the

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