[nagdu] Death of a Dream

[cheryl echevarria]

Did you try GDF. The Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind.

Echevarria Travel! One on One Travel Agent, Making Your Travel Dreams Come 
True!

Cheryl Echevarria
Independent Travel Consultant
C10-10646

http://Echevarriatravel.com
1-866-580-5574

Reservations at echevarriatravel.com
Affiliated as an Independent Contractor with Montrose Travel CST-1018299-10


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elizabeth Rene" <emrene at earthlink.net>
To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 2:26 PM
Subject: [nagdu] Death of a Dream


> Dear Gail,
>
> Don't give up yet.
>
> And, most certainly, don't disconnect.
>
> This is when you need your friends.
>
> Someone might have a good suggestion for you.
>
> I, for one, know that Southern California has a dry climate.  It's much
> drier than that in the Bay Area, for instance.  GDA is in Southern
> California.
>
> It's interesting, too, that GDB didn't reject you on account of your
> blindness diagnosis.  Did they have that yet?
>
> If they did have your test results,, and gave other reasons for not
> admitting you to a class, then the question of your legal blindness
> shouldn't stand in your way.
>
> You wrote about how hard it would be to take your first, get acquainted 
> with
> the home environment, walks with your new guide dog in the summer.  GDB
> didn't seem to offer you a later class so you could go home in the cooler
> fall or winter months and spend more time outside in comfort.  Surely 
> other
> guide dog graduates have had to go home to climates seasonably unfavorable
> to long walks.  I grew up, and my mother and brothers still live, in
> Minnesota's Twin Cities, where winter temperatures could drop to -50 
> degrees
> wind chill.  People there go to work on a -20  degree day without a 
> thought,
> taking for granted the necessary seasonal precautions.  There's no way 
> that
> I would work a dog for seven or eight blocks a day in weather like that.
> That's when you get a ride.  At GDA last summer, the temperature soared
> above 100 degrees for several afternoons.  They either kept us indoors, to
> do training exercises in the corridor, or drove us to a nice, cool 
> shopping
> mall, where we could work our dogs there.
>
> You have successfully bonded to and worked dog guides in the past.  That's
> got to count for something with a school flexible enough to consider the
> needs of the individual applicant.
>
> And you've been out there working to improve O&M skills which at least 
> have
> been sufficient for you to navigate with self-trained dogs.  At guide dog
> school over the years, I've encountered classmates with O&M skills way 
> more
> polished (and far less refined) than others.
>
> Hang on.
>
> PS:   If Kansas is such a hole, do you have relatives anywhere else in the
> country who might support your family's efforts to move there?
>
> Elizabeth
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> nagdu mailing list
> nagdu at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nagdu_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for 
> nagdu:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nagdu_nfbnet.org/cherylandmaxx%40hotmail.com
>