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

Mon Dec 6 20:05:11 UTC 2010

No, I watched that Home Makeover Show years ago about the policeman who lost 
his vision in a gunshot accident in Florida.  I learned that if I have a 
different type of flooring and wall texture in every room, I'll always know 
where I am. *smile*

Julie

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From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray at gmail.com>
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yesterday.thefamily has a guide dog and are diabetics,but they didn't go 
into any of that at all.

> Julie, you lost yet?
>
> CL
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Julie J" <julielj at windstream.net>
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> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 1:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Did anyone watch the home makeover show yesterday.
> thefamily has a guide dog and are diabetics,but they didn't go into any of
> that at all.
>
>
> Wayne,
>
> I'm apparently in deep, deep trouble.  I live in a three bedroom home with 
> a
> full basement and a yard I can get lost in just for good measure.  *smile*
>
> I gave up watching the Home Makeover show years ago because it always 
> makes
> me so mad.  It doesn't matter if they have blind folks, other types of
> disabilities or just Joe Q. Public.  It always feels like the show 
> producers
> prostitute the people for pity.
>
> JMHO
> Julie
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Wayne Merritt" <wcmerritt at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 11:01 AM
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> 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.
>>> The biggest compliment you can pay me is to recommend my services!
>>>
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