I had a medical emergency that found me in the ICU unit for 4+weeks this April and when I say things were bad that’s just the half of it. At 36 I never imagined I would be in a position where I was unable to clean myself up, sit, up, eat or drink but that’s where I found myself. All of the nurses were really great and caring but one stood out to me. Yoon Choi, RN, was the first nurse to make me feel human again and to give me some hope. She asked me if I wanted to have my hair washed; nobody had asked that and I had been there almost a month. It was a turning point for me to feel like I could get better and start taking care of myself again. She also made me the best, most effective heating packs that stayed warm hours longer than the instant packs the other nurses used. Yoon would come to visit me later even if I wasn’t assigned to her and would stay at my bedside for a little while, giving me words of encouragement and hope knowing that this would pass and that someday soon I would be off the feeding tube and able to get back to the life I had before. Others had told me the same but something about the way Yoon said it and how she kept visiting me to check on me even after I was moved off the ICU floor made really believe it. She wasn’t my first nurse or my last and I’m still on the feeding tube but I think of her nearly every day when I feel down and how I know she’s rooting for me. She made me feel good again at the lowest point of my entire life and for that, I am eternally grateful. Yoon will always have a special place in my heart.