[blparent] leaving family to get a dog guide

[Jessica Pitzer]

well, for me, we can have visitors starting on the wednesday or
thursday evening and all day sunday, so it wouldnt' be awful, and if
we can somehow take his walker or something he loves that so would be
fine I think. Plu sthere is tons of places they can go walk and window
shop and they can come ot the school more offten with special
permission since its special circumstance, I talked to them about it.
Jessica

On 6/6/12, Jo Elizabeth Pinto <jopinto at msn.com> wrote:
> Depending on the school, the hotel idea might be pretty difficult.  When I
> was at GDB, there were only certain very limited times when we could leave
> the school or have visitors.  It also might be hard for your kid to be taken
>
> out of his routine for such a long time, depending on his age.  Eleven days
>
> is an eternity to stay in a hotel unless there are a lot of things nearby
> that your mom and child could do, which would add to the expenses.  For
> older kids, I like the day camp idea that was mentioned.  It would give the
>
> kids something to focus on besides missing Mom.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a
> song."  Maya Angelou
>
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> From: "Jessica Pitzer" <rolosgirl at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 8:55 PM
> To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] leaving family to get a dog guide
>
>> I'm very interested in this subject as i'm applying for a successor
>> dog righ tnow, and my son is 8 months old. I'll  be going for 2 weeks,
>> when the time comes, and the school of my choosing seems to be of the
>> mind you figure it out as far as the kids go.
>> Right now, my thoughts are eithe rot have my mom and partner watch him
>> together depending on when I go, becuase my mom is between jobs, and
>> if she's working to ahve the fiancee watch during the day and my mom
>> helpin in the evenings and at night. My other option which i'm
>> checking into is having my mom fly up with me, and back and paying for
>> her a hotel so that I can see them both while i'm in the 2 week
>> training. its really only 11 days I'll be there, 13 with the travel
>> days, but I don't wanna be away that long, so we'll see what happens.
>> Jessica
>>
>> On 6/6/12, Bernadetta Pracon <bernadetta_pracon at samobile.net> wrote:
>>> erin, there already is such a school. Fidelco does only in-home
>>> training. There's another one called freedom guides or something to
>>> that effect; They also only do in-home training. The only thing about
>>> Fidelco is that they only train shepherds. I personally love shepherds
>>> and I hope my next guide will be a shepherd, but I know many people
>>> don't want one of those for one reason or another.
>>> I am also thinking of getting another guide dog at some point, though I
>>> don't know when. My first guide retired during the time I was pregnant.
>>> I always imagined I'd never again be without a guide, but circumstances
>>> made it so that I couldn't get a replacement right away, for obvious
>>> reasons. And though I miss working with a dog very much, to the point
>>> where I  feel awkward with a cane now, I can't get a dog anytime in the
>>> near future. My partner and I decided that having a new dog alongside a
>>> new baby would probably be impracticle and most likely too chaotic for
>>> us to handle. Not to mention, he also has a seeing eye dog, which
>>> further detracts me from the idea of getting my own. Two dogs and a
>>> baby seems like something I don't necessarily want to deal with at the
>>> moment. And that's too bad because I long to have my own guide again.
>>> Bernadetta
>>>
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