There are many reasons why I love my husband, but one thing that always has me falling back in love time after time is how chivalrous he truly is. I have countless stories about how he put himself in harms way to protect and defend the innocent, but I don't think there is enough space in my blog to boast, so I decided to just tell you about what he did today instead.
We had a lovely day (despite this horrible rash I acquired on my face that is so itchy and making my life miserable), but that's another story, another day. We went to the happiest place on earth Disneyland and spent the day with our nephew, nieces and sister; it truly was a day to be had!
At the end of the day, after we dropped off our nephew, we decided to go shopping for a few needed household items at our local store and on our way back to our car, my husband stopped in his tracks and gasped, " oh no!" I had my eyes down and when I looked up and towards what he was staring at, there were two women in the street of the parking lot. One was an elderly woman laying on the ground and the other was a slightly younger woman (maybe her daughter or home health aide) trying to pick the elderly lady back up. On the sidewalk was a wheelchair that was half on the sidewalk, half on the street; Just then, a car was entering the lot coming towards them. After assessing the situation further and seeing the car coming towards them, my husband quickly handed me our shopping bags and ran towards the scene without any hesitation. I stood behind trying to figure out what was going on and as I looked around, I saw two other gentlemen running towards the women as well, but my husband was the first at the scene so only one of the other guys came over and held the wheelchair, while my husband and the younger lady helped the elderly woman back to her chair. Luckily, by this time, the car that was coming in the parking lot saw the situation as well and stopped in front of them and got out to see if he can also lend a helping hand. Fortunately, by this time, my husband, the other woman and the third stranger all were able to safely get the situation under control and the ladies out of harms way.
When I got closer to the scene, the younger lady was apologizing profusely to everyone and explained that she wasn't paying attention so she thought she was rolling the wheelchair down the slant of the sidewalk, when in actuality she rolled her off the curb, which I guess caused the wheelchair to dip and the elderly woman to fall out into the street. My husband offered to assist in pushing the wheelchair across the parking lot, but the younger woman just kept apologizing and saying she was okay. We walked back to our car, but with a watchful eye towards the two women which now seemed to be stopped behind a bush in the parking lot, where the younger lady was assessing the elderly woman to see if she was seriously injured. My husband said that the elderly woman was yelling at the younger one and that the elderly woman was complaining about her arm, but as we pulled out and started to leave the parking lot, we looked back and seen the two women walking back towards the store, while the younger lady kept rubbing the elderly women's shoulder.
We hope that she is okay, because I know how serious even the smallest falls can be for the elderly, but for now my husband was a knight in shining amour or at least in my eyes anyway!....until next time.
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