Out of the Mouths of.... Patients

This will be a short and sweet post.  It doesn't need to be long.  Sometimes patients are pretty smart.  And sometimes patients are tired of getting woken up repeatedly, especially when the necessity of it is beyond their understanding.
One patient recently kept asking me to leave him alone so he could sleep (in a tired, whiny, but sweet way -- you know, the way that makes you feel sorry for him
).  It gets exhausting when labs must be drawn every hour, not long after drifting off to sleep.  In this patient's effort to convince me to just let him sleep, he imparted this piece of wisdom...

"But sleep is the most important thing for getting better!"

Ah yes, little buddy.  Preach it.  You might just be sermonizing right in the face of the [night shift] choir, but PREACH IT.