[nagdu] Guide dog injured on escalator

Tamara Smith-Kinney tamara.8024 at comcast.net
Mon Nov 16 18:14:43 UTC 2009


/lol/  I haven't taken on a moving sidewalk with Mitzi.  I wonder what she
will think?  I wonder what I will think?  I've done them with cane, while
rushing through an airport with a highly agitated spouse, so didn't have
time to pay much attention to the process of getting on and off.  I could
use my vision to get onto it without catastrophe, but the thought of doing
that in higher stages of vision loss was daunting!

Mitzi will probably think it's funny strange and want to go on it just for
the novelty and to show me she can!  We will probably both want to keep
walking.  /lol/  Which is fine with her, since she stops for crowds in the
way.

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Jeanette Beal
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 10:50 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Guide dog injured on escalator

Cindy - aren't moving walkways hilarious?  Drum was thrilled to find
one - he just stood there wagging.  Made me nervous but we did it once
just to try it.  I think he's decided all walks should go that way.
Too bad for him :)

On 11/13/09, Pickrell, Rebecca M (IS) <REBECCA.PICKRELL at ngc.com> wrote:
> That's true of any media story though. The old "If it bleeds, it reads"
> adage.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Tamara Smith-Kinney
> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 12:14 PM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Guide dog injured on escalator
>
> Cindy,
>
> Sad, but true.  Sigh.  I notice that there's always that sympathy play
> in
> these kind of media stories.  Poor, helpless blind person can't get out
> of
> his/her chair without the dog.  Sigh.
>
> Tami Smith-Kinney
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Cindy Ray
> Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 7:24 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Guide dog injured on escalator
>
> Well, I would probably find someone to care for the dog for me and would
> go
> to work as I know that I can go to work successfully without the dog,
> but I
> would also be concerned that the dog was getting the care it needed.
> Sadly,
> though, people really would be more attentive to the fact that we needed
> to
> sit at home bedcause we couldn't make it to work without the dog than
> they
> would be if we were inconvenienced by having to get care for that dog
> while
> we went to work without it. It brings out the sympathy more fully. I,
> personally, am plenty willing to be sympathetic about the accident in
> the
> first place.
>
> Cindy
>
>
>
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