Adina's sickness:

I got poison ivy the summer after my freshman year of college while "romping" around the backwoods of New Jersey with some British kid I was currently mad for. My mother was putting calamine lotion all over my body, now and then interjecting "How did you get poison ivy there?", when I started gasping for air and then blacked out and banged my head on the bathroom floor. My mother had to roll me into the tub and wash the calamine lotion off my body because I had just had a major allergic reaction to it and almost died. Oh, to be young again.