[nabs-l] Stupid Question

[T. Joseph Carter]

Joe, with crutches you use one as a cane and sweep with it before you step.  
You won't move at anything close to your regular pace, but you pick it up 
relatively well.

It's possible to use a cane and an electric wheelchair, but with a manual 
chair it's the same idea as with the crutches, only I can imagine half a 
dozen circumstances where it would be really hard to do it (and it would be 
incredibly slow no matter what you did..)

Maybe the blind rollers list would have an answer to the latter.

Joseph

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:07:08AM -0500, Joe Orozco wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>The subject line forewarned you of the ignorance of my question, so don't
>laugh!
>
>I was wondering how a blind person on crutches or a person on a wheelchair
>gets around?  Something tells me I should be able to figure out the response
>to this question, and yet my own ideas sound ignorant.  Last night was the
>second time I almost broke my leg while training in judo.  Actually, after
>pulling a dumb little stunt I also felt as though I came close to breaking
>my neck, and I don't know.  I figure it would be good to know what options
>are available to people in such situations...just in case...  I know the
>Seeing Eye has trained some of their dogs to escort people on wheelchairs,
>but even this arrangement seems to present its own unique circumstances.
>
>Anyway, thanks for any feedback to my random inquiry.
>
>Joe Orozco
>
>"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."--James M.
>Barrie