[il-talk] Newsline

Wed Apr 18 23:43:42 UTC 2012

thanks for the warm welcome.

I think I will probably make more enemies that friends due to the NFB's stonch love for the cane. 

I just had to retire my guide dog and I hate the cane with a passion.

My cane skills have been kept up and I've always had good cane skills, but if I wanted to play bumper blind chick, I wouldn't have gotten a dog.

I however, don't have the faith in, or health, at current to get another dog, because some doctors up here wouldn't listen to me when I told them that the medicine they had me on was making me gain huge amounts of weight till I became 100 pounds over weight and now, I can't exercise because of severe fibromyalgia complicated by my weight, tendonitis, which is not helped by the extra weight, and knee pain due to being hit by a car when I was eighteen, which, again, is not helped by my weight.

I am going to a gastric bypass seminar to qualify to see the doctor who will do it because my BMI deffinately qualifies me and the medical card will pay for it.

Until then, I'm waiting on my free long cane so I can continue to play bumper blind chick, which, as I've said before, isn't my favorite game.

Please don't let this email turn you guys off of trying to get to know me, but I just retired my guide suddenly two weeks ago and had to give him away last Sunday, so I'm a little angry and hurt at the moment.

I hope you all will understand and have some mercy on me and reserve judgement on me till I can get over the anger and hurt of this loss.

Jenny
On Apr 18, 2012, at 5:44 PM, Pittman Enterprises & Associates wrote:

> Welcome to Il-talk.  I'm Debbie Pittman
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Jennifer Perdue
> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 5:48 PM
> To: GlennMooreIII at yahoo.com; NFB of Illinois Mailing List
> Subject: [il-talk] Newsline
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> I'm relatively new to the NFB, but I'd like to get hooked up with newsline
> if possible.  
> 
> Could someone tell me how to do that?  I use to try it over the phone and it
> had its uses, but I've heard it's gotten much better since then, and I
> haven't tried it since I moved up here.
> 
> Anyway, I'd like to know what options I have to use it too.  Phone,
> computer, maybe talking book or daisy download?  I'm still an NFB baby but
> any advice would be appreciated.
> 
> Jenny
> On Apr 14, 2012, at 2:49 AM, GlennMooreIII at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
>> Oh, that's a shame. I can imagine how it feels, cause I also enjoy biking
> (i never had a pink bike though)
>> 
>> -Glenn III
>> (from iPhone: 1 (847) 899-9801)
>> 
>> On Apr 7, 2012, at 8:24, "Don Gillmore" <don.gillmore at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: NFB-NEWSLINE Online 
>> To: Donald Gillmore 
>> Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 7:50 AM
>> Subject: Article from Chicago Sun Times Metro 2012 04 06
>> 
>> 
>> Blind bicyclist and his partner just want their stolen tandem bike back By
> STEFANO ESPOSITO Staff Reporter sesposito at suntimes.com April 6, 2012 6:06PM
> Updated: April 6, 2012 6:08PM There are times in life when Terry Gorman, who
> is blind, feels invisible. Like when he walks into an elevator, says 'hi,'
> and in the way of keep-to-themselves city folk no one replies. That's why
> the 63-year-old Edgewater resident's tandem bicycle, which he rides with his
> partner, Sheldon Atovsky, is hot pink so that Gorman is sure to be noticed.
> Unfortunately, thieves took notice of the bike Friday morning while it was
> locked up outside Northwestern Memorial Hospital. It's very upsetting, said
> Atovsky, 61, a retired DePaul University music professor. It's just so
> surprising. It was locked very carefully. That's perhaps an understatement.
> Atovsky and Gorman used four different locks to immobilize the bike and
> secure it to a low, wrought-iron fence on East Huron, while Gorman
>> went to a doctor's appointment. When they returned less than two hours
> later, the bike and locks were gone stolen in daylight on a street where
> there's almost always a constant stream of patients, doctors and other
> hospital staff. The bike is worth about $3,800, Gorman said. Gorman and
> Atovsky have called their insurance company; they've filed a police report;
> they've checked with hospital security to make sure someone didn't
> confiscate the bike. They just want their bike back. Perhaps you've seen
> Atovsky and Gorman as Chicago Sun-Times photographer Al Podgorski did this
> week for a photograph that ran in Wednesday's edition riding along the
> lakefront. Last year, they logged 3,300 miles. I love the sound of the
> bicycle and the sound of the environment around us, said Gorman, who has
> been blind since birth and takes the back seat the stoker position. You hear
> birds, you hear the sound of the wind, you hear traffic along Lake Shore
> Drive. You hear golf
>> balls hitting this and that. Perhaps you've heard Gorman's bicycle bell.
> It's part of a little game the couple play: Whenever someone waves or smiles
> at them along the lakefront, Atovsky takes notice and tells Gorman to ring
> his bell. Sheldon is someone who doesn't want to be noticed, Gorman
> explained. I want to be noticed. The missing bike is a C-Motion Scout, in a
> color that's technically called pearlescent magenta. The bike is about eight
> feet long and it has no fenders. If you see it, email Atovsky at
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