(Left to right) Heather Mayes, R.N., Ellie Toole, R.N., Jesus Esparza, and his wife Cynthia look over photos on Esparza's phone in the OHSU Medical Intensive Care Unit in April 2019, After contracting a bad strain of the flu, Esparza spent 23 days in the intensive care in 2016, where Mayes and Toole cared for him. He was kept alive with the help of advanced medical equipment that oxygenated his blood, called ECMO. Toole cared for him during that time. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)
