Sometimes, a very small event, or brief conversation can have the greatest impact on your life. I learned this one sunny spring day four years ago. I was attending the second National Institutes of Health conference on Vulvodynia. While I certainly found that many of the lectures that day to informative, none offered a major change in how I was treating my patients with Vulvodynia. However, when walking to lunch I saw Dr. Gordon Davis, one of the world’s leading vulvar specialists. Dr. Davis, who lives in Phoenix, had had quite an eventful trip to Maryland. When he arrived, he had severe abdominal pain and he had just been discharged from the hospital after undergoing an emergency appendectomy. After he assured me that he was fine, we started discussing the conference and he gave me one piece of advice.