Tonight my mom was the recipient of a Nursing Excellence award for her work at the children’s hospital. In specific, my mom has focused a lot of time and energy making a program for autistic children to feel safe and secure when going to the hospital. She also was part of re creating the children’s pre admission clinic, as well as so much more that I can’t even begin to explain. It’s no secret that I’m an extremely proud daughter. Whether it was video taping her speech or jumping up to take a million pictures, the entire audience could see I was one of her biggest fans. If I could be even half as compassionate, caring, and loving as my mom, I’d consider myself lucky. Thanks to my mom for not only changing my life, but every family that you see in your clinic every day.