[blparent] leaving family to get a dog guide

Thu Jun 7 03:53:45 UTC 2012

I wasn't trying to tell you what to do.  Good luck with whatever you decide.

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 9:39 PM
To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] leaving family to get a dog guide

> 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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