Allison Cobb

Allison Cobb is the wife of Daniel Cobb.

History
Allison came to the hospital with her husband, Daniel, was in Derek's NGF surgical trial. She was hopeful that the drug would reverse his condition entirely, as she'd read that there had been reversal when the drug was used in rats and monkeys.

While waiting for his surgery, Daniel became confused and kept asking for his wife, Victoria. Meredith asked Allison who Victoria was and she told her that Victoria was a woman who lived in the same nursing home as Daniel. They'd met the previous year there and despite both of them being married, they fell in love.

Before Daniel's surgery, Allison begged Alex just to give Daniel the drug because she needed her husband. Alex said he couldn't because even he didn't know ahead of time. Daniel was designated to receive the placebo, which was injected in his surgery.

After surgery, he was awake and asked again for Victoria. His wife was upset, so Alex told her just to be patient, to be whatever he needed, even if that didn't mean being his wife. She then told Daniel she'd go get Victoria for him.

Romantic
She is married to Daniel Cobb. They met when they were at college together when he saw her in the student union and followed her to her French poetry class in a snowstorm. He sat through her class for five months, trying to get up the nerve to talk to her. Forty years later, they were still together despite Daniel falling in love with another woman after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.

Notes and Trivia

 * She and Ben bonded over being the left-behind spouses.