[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.

[Terra Syslo]

I was appalled at that show. I couldn't even get much past the first 15
minutes. They made it sound like such a terrible thing that the woman had
burns on her arms from trying to cook. And when they started off the show
they said the couple lived with their two kids and their guide dog. Last
time I checked, you aren't really supposed to be sharing a guide dog. If the
media is going to portray blind people for the rest of the world to see,
then at least get a more positive representation. 

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Wayne Merritt
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 11:01 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [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.

Also, did anyone catch the fact that it's dangerous as a blind person
to live in a home and not know where anything was? This was brought up
by the parents and the show designers. I suppose I should feel
somewhat safe since I live in a 700 square foot apartment, but what if
I move up in homes to a condo or heaven forbid,a larger house?

Wayne

On 12/6/10, cheryl echevarria <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com> 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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