Good Samaritans go beyond call of duty

DEAR EDITOR:

On Tuesday, Jan. 31, my friend and I were heading to my car as I was giving her a ride to the Siesta Suites where she was staying while in Kelowna for chemo treatments.

I was pushing her in her walker backwards when the sidewalk stopped us dead in our tracks.

Her walker collapsed and she went down on her back onto her walker and I went down on my shoulder and hit the pavement which caused my head to bleed.

A man by the name of Nathan Hedges was going to the hospital to visit his mom. He promptly took off his coat and put it over my friend. A man in a black truck stopped and parked his truck on Pandosy and tried to help staunch the blood coming from my head.

A third person, Todd Richardson, a bylaw officer who had been an EMT called 911 and checked my friend over realizing she would need to be put on a stretcher to make sure she had not broken any bones. She had a previous fall a couple of weeks earlier and had twisted her pelvis as well as broken her tailbone.

A few months earlier she had hip surgery at Kelowna General Hospital so he was being very cautious. He advised the fire truck we should both be taken to KGH by ambulance, which we were.

The ambulance people were also wonderful. When my friend from the back of the ambulance asked about me they said I was driving the ambulance. My friend was released five hours later with no broken bones and I was released after they made sure I did not have any brain bleed, though I think it knocked some sense into me.

We were so thankful for these three guardian angels who came to our aid. Nathan Hedges is from Port Moody and the next day brought my friend Marleen a flower arrangement from Funky Petals while she was having chemo at KGH. The next day, when I invited him over for tea to thank him he brought me a lovely arrangement as well as baked goods.

I am sorry I did not get the name of the gentleman in the black truck who also stopped to help.

We were both very thankful for these three people who happened upon us laying in the street half a block from the hospital.

Pamela Reesor Kelowna