My husband has been in four hospitals before our stay at Vanderbilt. We had come into contact with a chemical at work that caused an inflammatory reaction in his lungs, and he had fungal spores already in his lungs from doing fresh water pond management. The added steroids to help with the inflammation caused his fungal infection to take over his lungs. We were told he needed a double lung transplant, and we moved to Vanderbilt to start the process.

We came in, and we have had some amazing nurses take care of us, but one has really stood out to us as a family. Amythyst on 7JAT came in when she was the charge nurse to help with changing his bed and helping him get back in the bed from the wheelchair. Just those few minutes she was in here, you could tell she really cared about him and talked him through everything.

Then, after Christmas, we got the pleasure of having her as our nurse. Unfortunately, my husband started having really bad pain from a shot he was getting to help his white blood cell count. To the point he was just lying in bed screaming and crying, Amythyst stayed in the room with us, trying anything to get him comfortable or help the pain. She was the biggest advocate for him, telling the doctors about what he was experiencing.

Then after a few days, we got to have Amythyst again as a nurse, and when she came in, she was hoping that his pain would be pretty much gone now, but unfortunately, it wasn't. She took the time to listen to my husband and see how she could help him. He was complaining about the packing on his bedsore, so she changed it right then and let him lie on it for a few minutes to see if she needed to do anything else.

Also, with the bedsore pain he was having a hard time sitting up, but she did amazing at encouraging him to at least try to get in the wheelchair, and while he was sitting there crying in pain, she was telling him how proud she was of him just even getting up and trying all this hard stuff to try and get better.

Then he had an accident in the wheelchair, resulting in a lot of stool in his wound on his butt, and she took over an hour to clean his wound to make sure she got everything out because she knew that he didn't need anything else with his wound.

We are forever grateful to Amythyst for the time and patience she showed my husband during her time with us! She is one of our favorite nurses on this floor!