[blparent] [Bulk] Re: Blind Parents Meeting

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

That's pretty scary.  Sarah is just getting good at walking now, so she 
falls down a lot.  She hit her forehead on the TV table and got a little 
scrape, and there was actually a sighted person there at the time, but it 
happened so fast neither one of us could do anything about it.  Then Sarah 
stuck her hand into the place on a VCR where the tape goes, and scratched 
her arm slightly.  So far, the few friends and family members who have seen 
her and asked me about it have said that all kids get nicked and scraped a 
bit, and they haven't been too concerned.  But it's in the back of my mind 
sometimes, what if.  I guess I'd want to ask anybody who fussed about it if 
they think blind parents keep the emergency rooms and the Band-Aid companies 
in this country supported all by themselves.

Jo Elizabeth

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed 
until it is faced."--James Baldwin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tammy, Paul and Colyn" <tcl189 at rogers.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] [Bulk] Re: Blind Parents Meeting


> Hi,
>
> I got cps showing up at my door one time because Colyn was playing with 
> his boots in the bus on the way somewhere and I bent over to help him put 
> them back on and wacked my face on one of those poles pretty hard. 
> They're metal you know, they hurt!  Well I didn't even say a bad word, 
> lol, just put his boots back on right and carried on about my business. 
> But apparently someone called cps and told them that I might be 
> endangering my child because I didn't know the pole was there and I might 
> run him in to things in other places.  They even wanted to see him naked 
> to make sure he didn't have any bruises that I might have caused because 
> of my quote inability to get him around safely.
>
> Tammy