Dear Good Samaritan! There are many of you out there in SEMOland. Do you recognize yourself? No specific names are mentioned, but you are a Good Samaritan if you have done one or more of the following actions.

Did you:

-- Open the door for me at a restaurant, business, doctor's office when you saw me walking with my "horse" (walker)?

-- Ask if I needed help reaching something at the supermarket?

-- Change my bed linens when I couldn't bend over?

-- Make my house and yard handicapped accessible?

-- Put my paper in my door?

-- Mow my lawn and burn the trimmings you cut from the yard? Rake the leaves?

-- Bring me meals when you weren't sure I was eating enough?

-- Invite me out for a meal or special outing?

I say, "thank you" to friends, relatives, neighbors and strangers. You are my Good Samaritan.