I had quite a bad medical once and we ended up diverting back into BRS although half an hour into the flight to ALC. The entire crew had already done an EDI and by the time the poor chap was looked after (and the galley was cleaned up) the company got in touch with us saying it's either us going over hours or the flight needed to be canceled. The entire crew agreed to continue with their very long duty. During the whole process the pax were great.
Once landed in ALC I (I had only been a SCCM for about three weeks or so.) noticed a woman in a row towards the front staying in her seat, obviously waiting for everybody else to get off. When she finally got up she said to me that she just wanted to say thanks to all of us to do this duty, her daughter was very ill with cancer in Bristol, and if she would have had to go back and say good-bye again after already doing it once it would have been unbearable to her.
I couldn't even talk, it touched me so deeply.
I was so glad that we had all agreed to do the duty. The entire crew ended up receiving a company award but for me THAT was the best reward I could have ever received. I still get emotional hen I think/talk about it now and it's about a year ago now.
It's those moments that makes it worthwhile working with people.