[nagdu] Getting back your cane legs

[Tamara Smith-Kinney]

Only when there are lots of people around when I'm doing it.  /lol/  Or is
that just because these days I only use a cane to shop and go around the
shopping center while I'm waiting for my poodle to get her hair done?  /lol/

In cane anyone is wondering, my cane sucks at the "find" command.  One day I
was thinking especially hard about where the aisle I wanted was in relation
to where I was standing and got really mad at my cane for not obeying
"Forward! Left!"

Then again, DD starts giving me the guide dog commands to tell me which way
to go when we're doing whatever it is together.  /lol/  Tami, forward.
Okay, now, left.  Halt!  I said *HALT*!  Left.  /lol/  Now I know how Mitzi
feels.  I'd bite me if I were her.  I might bite him at those time if I had
her teeth.  Teehee.

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Cindy Ray
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 4:52 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: [nagdu] Getting back your cane legs

I had a lot more trouble adjusting from a cane to a dog, but even now it
isn't too difficult for me to switch to the cane. I rarely do because the
great doctor to whom I used to be married said to me before I got my first
dog, "When you are getting a dog, you need to think of all the places you
would rather not use it or think it would be difficult and then do it." Now
I know there are places where this is inappropriate counsel, and, of course,
I think he did, too, but he was saying if you are going to have a dog, use
it. I miss the dog when he isn't with me much as I would miss my child, and
I miss the tug on the left side. That's partly why the awkward feeling. Has
anyone ever given his/her cane commands?


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