When she's not looking after her 86-year-old mother or playing with her grandchildren, Linda Dillard, of Eden, is working as an Operating Room Technician at UNC Rockingham Health Care, making sure the rooms in the hospital's COVID-19 unit are sanitized before, during and after patients arrive. A panel of judges just named her its "Haven for a Healthcare Warrior" award winner. "I was so overjoyed after I found out," Dillard said. "At first, I thought it was a joke."It's no joke.Dillard is going to receive a $20,000 bedroom makeover, courtesy of Marta Mitchell Interior Design in Greensboro. The company announced the initiative in April and received more than 100 nominations. "It's just wonderful to have something positive to be working towards," Mitchell said. "Linda is so deserving. But, just as deserving are all of the health care workers right now."Dillard, according to her supervisor Misty Weadon, was the first person from her team to go into the hospital's COVID unit at the start of the pandemic. She said everyone was apprehensive, but Dillard's calm approach, positive attitude and reassuring tone put everyone at ease."It's showing compassion and love and kindness to everyone, and that's Linda," Weadon said.Dillard is not certain exactly what kind of work she would like to have done to her bedroom but said she feels like "a kid in a candy store."Mitchell said the next step will be for her team to get to know Dillard better, take measurements, and come up with a plan. They aim to finish the makeover before the end of the year."It's still (hard to believe)," Dillard said. "The tears begin to flow, the excitement!"