[nagdu] EXTERNAL:Re: A true allergy case

[Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)]

You know, Dan, the way you've written here, this makes perfect sense. I
still need to go to work, take care of my family and participate no
matter how I feel. I can't just not do these things. 
Thank you for this, you have really changed my mind.

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Dan Weiner
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 10:07 AM
To: 'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
Subject: Re: [nagdu] EXTERNAL:Re: A true allergy case

No meeting of the minds needed, if he's a cab driver, he needs to take
you.
Granted, I'm certainly not glad he has allergies, but I'm talking a
strictly
legal basis here.
He tries to refuse you, he's not allowed to.
He wants to be a cab driver, let him do his job.


If his allergies cause him not to be able to function in his job, I
think he
would need a doctor's note or something along those lines.
A cabby told me once that none of them want to get that type of thing,
because you're not supposed to have any health issue  which would impair
his
driving ability.
If so, it would have to be on record.

I would have, actually more sympathy, even sincere and genuine sympathy
and
affection for him,  if he said something about allergies but said he
knows
he has to take you, rather than just trying to refuse you outright.
All right, no one wants headaches and your pollen allergies, Becca, and
so
on sound beastly,  I send you my sympathy..
I've had a sister who's spent most of my dog guide career whining about
allergies and she agrees with me about this, actually.

Now, Becca, and I am sorry as a friend you have this problem, is it
preventing you from going in to work? How many jobs at work are you able
to
refuse because of your allergies?

Just putting it in to perspective.

And, the NFB party line notwithstanding, blindness does impair some life
functions, that's why we need to have guide dogs or canes in public
places,
these are prosthetic devices substituting for some faculties which sight
would allow us to have recourse to.

I swear, we blind spend more time being sympathetic and revoltingly
understanding of everyone else, time to feel some self-worth guys.
The bottom line is, it isn't my problem, I mean, not my problem that he
has
a cab and has allergies.

I have a bad reaction to cigarette smoke, I see no one giving me much
consideration, just the way it is.


Dan W. and the Carter Nut



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