[nagdu] My dream is gone

[Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)]

She's off the list. I don't think anybody's messages will reach her.
Someone may want to call her though, Marian don't you do mental health?
Sounds like Gail could use some help and perspective.

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of William ODonnell
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 1:08 PM
To: the National Association of Guide Dog UsersNAGDU Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nagdu] My dream is gone

Now, now, please contact me off list.  We can talk about other viable
options IE going someware in the fall, or other season in addition to
going to another school or modifying the rutes taken when you come home.


--- On Thu, 6/24/10, Gail <deerskin at oct.net> wrote:

> From: Gail <deerskin at oct.net>
> Subject: [nagdu] My dream is gone
> To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
> Date: Thursday, June 24, 2010, 11:31 PM
>  
>  
> This, I'm sure, is no news to anyone here, but its the end
> of my dream for
> me. I got a call from GDB today, and I was turned down on
> two counts. One,
> because I dont have, and not likely to have, professional
> O&M training. And
> two, because my health-my breathing-wont allow me to do
> weeks of walking
> blocks around and around our little town after getting a
> dog from them. In
> our state, the weather is miserabley humid, and for someone
> with asthma,
> there is only a short time in the spring when I am able to
> be outside
> without feeling I am suffocating from humidity. 
>  
> I had chosen GDB as the school I hoped to go to, because
> California weather
> is dry, and I was sure I could build my stamina up to cope
> with the training
>  which would be approxamatly the level I was at when my
> last dog retired
> herself. But I will never be able to reach a level of
> stamina where I would
> be able to walk the 7 to 8 blocks here that GDB expects
> graduates to when
> they get home. I can understand why they want this, that
> the bonding is
> important...it just never crossed my mind that it would
> have to be done in
> this way. I never had to with the dogs I trained
> myself-bonding and work
> went on at home and away from home. 
>  
> To hear this was the death knell to my dream. There is no
> hope of my ever
> getting a guide dog now...I'm sure that all the other
> schools have similar
> reqirements, and since I would have to go to one in a dry
> climate, so I
> could breathe well enough to go through training, even if
> there were a
> school elsewhere, I would not be able to go. 
> I am utterly shattered, in tears all day, knowing now that
> the rest of my
> life will be spent sitting here in the corner of our living
> room. Learning
> that my life is only to be what I see on a computer screen.
> 
>  
> I wish to thank you all, for all your kindness, caring and
> good wishes. But
> it will be too painful to remain here, with no hope for
> release from this
> prision of our house. So I think it best I leave. 
>  
>  
> God bless and keep you all close to His Heart, all of you
> wonderful people 
>  
> Gail
> 
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