Day trip to Disneyland

On a day trip to Disneyland, Sarah Brown noticed she had a red, puffy rash on her ankles. It was starting to itch so she found herself at the medical center where they gave her ointment and sent her home. As the day went on, the rash spread to her legs. Her ankle swelled and she was in pain. She says, “I could barely hobble to our parked car and we were Googling for the closest hospital.” Her friend from college, David, held and comforted her the whole time. They went to three hospitals and all were closed. At the fourth, they sat in the waiting room for three hours before being seen. Two hours later, Sarah finally had her diagnosis: poison oak. It was 3 a.m. when Sarah and David began their search for a pharmacy. Nothing was open, so David drove two hours back home to San Diego with Sarah to go to bed and wake up early to get her prescription. Sarah says, “He never left me alone and he never once complained. It was the kind of feeling I had hoped to have with my partner in life.” While they previously went on a few dates prior to the tip, Sarah later discovered that David was harboring a six-month-long crush on her but it was the way he cared for on the trip that won her heart.

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