[blparent] Finding ticks on kids nonvisually?

[Michelle Creedy]

Great suggestions. I encourage you to be careful about making blanket
statements and assumptions about people you don't know and likely will never
meet. Your ideas are good ones but be careful.

Of course I'd know bumps that were not there before and guess who found the
ticks on the horses first? We had quite a lot of them in Africa. We all have
techniques that we use and maybe some of them are not what others would use
but the beauty of this list is that we share the techniques and if they werk
they work. If someone doesn't like them don't use them. It's all a matter of
making choices that you can live with. I'm simply throwing out ideas.

Michelle


-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Star Gazer
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 11:53 AM
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You will be in much closer contact with any kids you have then you will with
your horses. 
It's fine to use your friends, my concern with your post is that you are
already hading over your power. Ticks feel like bumps that shouldn't be
there. You as the mom will know things about your kids that professional
people in any capacity simply can't know. Don't let other people define the
relationship you have with your children.  

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Michelle
Creedy
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 9:17 PM
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I too was going to suggest a sighted person to check. I have a couple of
friends who are nurses and plan on using their expertees when I have
children. I guess for me, it's about having that conversation with the
person so that they understand that you simply need them to give you
information with their eyes that you are having trouble perceiving. I always
let them know that in the end, I will make the decisions on what to do with
that information.

I have two miniature horses and the one's eye runs a lot. I often rely on
the vision shared by others to let me know when it is really infected. I
decide on the course of treatments but they give me that info.

Michelle


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I'm glad you are registered in finding this out. I am very happy to see that
you are not militant and insistent on having yourselves only do it and
possibly letting a set of person do it. I wish we had more like you. I wish
I knew the answer or what to tell you, but I don't. I never had to do this
before. But thank you for the breath of fresh air, in the understanding that
sometimes, just sometimes we might need aside a person or two in our lives
to help us just

Gabe Vega
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On Jul 9, 2013, at 12:34 PM, "Melissa Ann Riccobono" <melissa at riccobono.us>
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> Our son, Austin, is at a nature day camp this week. He is having tons 
> of fun, but this morning he told me that his counselors told him to 
> have his parents check him for ticks each night when he comes home.
> This makes sense to me, but I admit this is something I have never 
> done before. Is there a way to check nonvisually for a tick on your child?
> 
> Thanks for any thoughts.
> 
> Melissa
> 
> P.S. We certainly have sighted friends/neighbors who can help with 
> this, but I was curious if this is something Mark and I could do
ourselves.
> 
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