From Hidden Brain Media, I'm Shankar Vedantam. This is my unsung hero, stories where one person reached out to help another in a time of need.

Thank you so much for the chance to tell you about my unsung hero.

I just left there feeling like there was hope for my situation and my kids.

I can never thank you enough for all you've done for me and I'll never be able to repay you.

Thank you.

Today's story comes from April Oswald.

In 1997, April was in her early 20s.

She was on a road trip from California to Colorado with her boyfriend

John and their two dogs. About midway through the trip in a town called Lovelock, Nevada, which is really kind of in the middle of nowhere.

I was driving and it was an SUV and I flipped the car and the car went like back over front for about a hundred yards. I undid my

seatbelt got out of the car, started yelling for him, and then completely

collapsed.

Now it was freezing temperatures, probably something in the 20s

and the two dogs also were alive,

but one was injured very badly.

Well, my boyfriend at the time got up to the road and was trying to flag people down,

and this was the middle of the night, so nobody was stopping, and so he took off his jacket in the middle of the night so nobody was stopping and so he took off his

jacket in the middle of a cold Nevada night and he threw it at a guy that eventually

stopped. First of all I ended up having to be life flighted to the near hospital so thank goodness this guy stopped.

But what he also did was then for the next three nights he drove our dog back and forth from the veterinary clinic where he was getting

blood transfusions to the hotel where my boyfriend was

to see me and to the hotel where I was to see me and to the hotel where he was staying.

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