After my youngest son, 3-year-old T, was diagnosed with the flu and RSV, he was hospitalized with unimaginable things going on in his little 3-year-old body. Me and a close friend rushed T to the hospital. He was immediately admitted to PICU, where the rollercoaster began. If I'm being honest, I wish I could nominate everyone I encountered from day 1. T was extremely sick and only seemed to get worse. At some point, we met Ben, and immediately, he seemed to fall in love with T. Being that we have the same last name, he said we were family, and he treated all of us as such. Ben asked me so many questions about T while he was in his care. He started by buying SpongeBob-related tops and bottoms because he would say, "If you look good and smell good, you should feel good, right?" It would always make me smile and think of how T would feel if he weren't sedated right now, or how happy he would be if he saw what he had on. Although he had chest tubes in and wires everywhere, Ben found a way to make the clothes work. All the nurses participated in changing his sheets and pillow cases daily. Also, there was a day T needed to get a CT scan. The PICU team made sure Tay was escorted by police; at that time, he was on ECMO, continuous dialysis, the VENT, he had a Foley, central line with a host of meds, and an EEG. Ben made sure T was dressed and had put some red shades on him to not only protect his eyes, because, as he was paralyzed, his eyelids wouldn't fully shut. That was the highlight of the week. As time progressed and a few more scares, Ben always reassured my family that T was in great hands, and when he was concerned, I know he put in OT to make sure T was stable. Ben also got himself a pair of SpongeBob shoes to match the SpongeBob slippers T had. Ben also would fist-bump T and talk to him like he was responding back. Ben's dedication to the care of his patients and families, kind heartedness, and resiliency made the worst time of our family lives somehow have a light at the end of the tunnel. Everyone played a very important role in allowing T to walk out of that hospital. All the effort that was put into T's care from the ED to pediatric rehab resulted in T being able to spend time with family and become a walking miracle. Thank you from the depths of this grateful mother's heart.

**This is Ben's 2nd DAISY Award!