[nagdu] Did anyone watch the home makeover show yesterday. the family has a guide dog and are diabetics, but they didn't go into any of that at all.

[Brenda]

Did the family actually have a guide dog?  They showed the dog but not 
much else and never even showed his harness and never even showed the 
parents walking down the street independently to try the traffic 
light.   (They showed the traffic light, but just let the family hear it 
over the phone.)

On 12/6/2010 11:50 AM, cheryl echevarria wrote:
> Good morning all:
>
> This was the second time that ABC Extreme Home Make Over did a  home make over for a blind family.
>
> The got some stuff right, but again I have some questions, some about the family, and some about what ABC did?
>
> Question about the Anderson family.  Now these are questions I may right to the show about, but mostly they are pondering in my head to share with all.
>
> The Anderson Family
>
> 1.  They are from what I understand and family who gives support to other people with disabilities.  One of my questions is are they members of either the NFB or another organization, trained in all of this from being in the field, or just decided to do it all by themselves.
>
> 2.  They never went into there diabetes, since both of them are diabetic, like do they use anything like the prodigy voice or the solo meter to test the blood, the team never asked that either.
>
> 3. The husband has a guide dog, but at one point when they were talking to the family, my husband said that the dog was in harness and digging a whole in the ground. WHAT is that about?
>
> 4.  If they are having problems with the traffic lights, then why didn't they just contact the town or the legislative body in there area and get it fixed.  If they are a company or business out there helping other blind and disabled people shouldn't they be doing this for themselves first before helping others to do it.
>
> ABC:  This the 2nd time in 8 Seasons that they have focused or help and blind family, and still haven't gotten it correctly.
>
> 1.  The technology.  They didn't say where they got the technology, the didn't go to NFB or the other organization for advice, they just went to the technology stores that have technology for the blind.
>
> 2. And Electric Cane, now come on, do we if we were taught properly to use our canes, do we need a cane that vibrates when we are near something. They are diabetic, they can have neuropathy and not be able to tell if they are vibrating, etc.
>
> 3. The stove they got, yes she got burned many times, again diabetic, they got them the counter tops and wall oven, but they didn't label it or at least put raised dots on the stove/oven.
>
>
> To many other issues there.
>
> I don't know if the NFB members ever wrote the first time to ABC and got responses on these issues.
>
> But I plan on starting a writing campaign.  Let me know if you are interested.
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