[blparent] [Bulk] Re: Blind Parents Meeting

[Veronica Smith]

That's how I used to feel when Gab was young.  She got her hand stuck in the
VCR, her leg stuck in the couch, got her head stuck in the slats of a
staircase and all of these things were done with sighted people around.
Every time we were going to take her to get her picture taken, she had a
gash in the middle of her forehead.  That's how babies are.  When I took her
to the Dr. I was terrified that he would think I was beating her, but he
said he was glad to see the bumps and bruses on her.  He said that meant she
was a healthy child and I was not keeping her locked up somewhere. V

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 5:06 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] [Bulk] Re: Blind Parents Meeting

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 


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