My dad had Crohn’s Disease and was a Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Gastrointestinal patient since 1983 or 1984. In August of 2020, my dad’s health began to deteriorate. I moved in with him to help him manage what we thought was the beginning of a Crohn's flare with obstruction. I believed he needed hospitalization, he was less inclined to think so. One day, I tricked him into taking a bath when I knew Tracey would be calling. In hushed tones, I told Tracey, "I have not seen my dad this sick since the 1990s.” Getting my dad to go to the hospital was an almost impossible task that I had promised my siblings I would do when it rose to that occasion. As a stoic Vermonter, my dad RARELY went to the ED - he had an irrigation kit and would self-irrigate at home to avoid the ED. I had been watching him decline and I KNEW something bad was going on. I also knew my dad was not going to go if I alone said so, and I knew he trusted Tracey. After telling Tracey how sick he was, she advised that I bring him into the ED. I told my dad that Tracey called and that she said we needed to go to the ED in Lebanon. He grumbled, but said we should go because Tracey said. We presented there on a Friday. A few days later, my dad developed Sepsis, and my siblings and I removed life support in the very early pre-dawn hours. He had adenocarcinoma, not Crohn's, and died of Septic shock preceded by metastatic cancer. Without the strong patient-provider relationship that my dad had with Tracey, it is likely he would have continued to stay home. I am forever grateful that my dad trusted Tracey with his life, and that over the years she developed such a strong, trusting relationship with him. It meant he did not have to suffer for the last 48-72 hours of his life. This is just one example of MANY related to her nursing. The least I can do on his behalf is say all the things to Tracey that my dad never would have out loud because he was not that kind of man, and this is my way of doing so. His life was made better because she was his nurse, and I am grateful that my life too, is made better.