[nagdu] carrying white cane

[Meghan Whalen]

I heard of someone who took an old telescopic radio antenna.  super 
flimsy but doable for a few seconds, I don't know other than that, though.

On 7/14/2011 3:35 PM, GARY STEEVES wrote:
> Hello:
>
> This is slightly related to  the email I'm responding to. :) I like to have a cane with me even when I have Bogart for several reasons. The most notable I've come across is having to use public washrooms. Really need a cane to find things rather than ones hands or feet.
>
> Has anyone rigged up a way of carrying a cane on the harness? I was thinking of getting a longish ID cane so it would be light and thin but would serve in case of emergency. I was hoping I could fit it in his harness pouch but I think even my short ID cane is too long. Has anyone thought up something ingenious that they would like to share?
>
> Thanks
> Gary
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tami Kinney<tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
> Date: Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:06 am
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] attachment or anxiety separation
> To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
>
>> Bibi,
>>
>> Wow. You sure have beeen through a lot recently. That alone, or
>> so it
>> seems to me, would make anyone more prone to anxiety in general. As
>> would being without a white cane! I did once go for a time
>> without a
>> white cane after I lost my very first one somehow, so now I have a
>> zillion canes and need to get to ordering a spare straight cane,
>> as well
>> as a new pocket cane, whether it's a telescoping nfb cane or a light
>> foldup ambutech. /lol/ I trust my guide now and use her
>> exclusively for
>> nearly everything, but I don't want to get stuck without a dog
>> or cane
>> ever again! /lol/
>>
>> I haven't yet had to find out how I will cope with my guide's
>> retirement, and I plan not to for another 5 or 6 years at the very
>> least. Still... I feel very sad and get a twinge of separation anxiety
>> just thinking about it. Heck, I get separation anxiety just
>> leaving her
>> at the groomers. Sad, but true. /smile/
>>
>> Hope your new cane arrives soon, and good on Dale for being your
>> eyes in
>> the meantime. My then-husband was, well, useless and also made a big
>> deal about expressing the extent to which he just didn't know
>> what my
>> problem was and that I should just not go to work until a new cane
>> arrived, but it was no hurry, there was some reason he was interfering
>> with my attempts to acquire a new one, I can't even remember
>> what it
>> was. Thus, he is now the ex-husband. Argh! I did manage to get
>> my hands
>> on a support cane, which was better than nothing but not at all
>> the same
>> and it was too short, so it actually made life more difficult,
>> especially since there was snow on the ground at the time, all nicely
>> packed down even on the sidewalks and all icy and limpy, so... Well,
>> having friends with brains around helped many times but I am
>> glad you
>> also have a cooperative , even helpful partner to assit in
>> covering the
>> gap. /smile/
>>
>> Best to you both, and to Odie as well.
>>
>> Tami
>>
>> On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 07:55 -0600, Criminal Justice Major
>> Extraordinairewrote:
>>> Hi, all,
>>> Have any of you felt that big attachment toward your retired
>> guide dog and
>>> experienced anxiety separation?
>>> It seems like I've been experiencing that lately and was
>> hoping I wouldn't
>>> be the only one.
>>> I've found myself feeling all of that, especially when Odie is
>> left at home.
>>> On Saturday, Dale and I went to see a Cinderrella play live
>> that my step
>>> sister Sarah was in.
>>> It was held in the theater inside the King Center on Auraria
>> campus and
>>> total amount of people was probably four hundred.
>>> There was no way that Odie was probably going to handle it, so
>> the hard
>>> decision was to leave him at home for me at least.
>>> While Dale and I were out with family, that's when it all hit me.
>>> Yesterday was a different story however.
>>> Odie was in his medical alert service dog vest walking with my
>> husband.>  I was using my support cane and walking ahead of the
>> two men slowly and
>>> carefully.
>>> Odie began to move faster upon trying to bolt out in front of me.
>>> I think he still felt that he needed to be my eyes and was
>> concerned that I
>>> was going to get hurt.
>>> I'm in the process of getting a new fold up white cane through
>> Ambutech.>  unfortunately I had lost my current one, especially
>> after the convulsive
>>> grandmal seizures I dealt with two months in a row.
>>> Thankfully, my husband told me he'd happily be my eyes until I
>> can get my
>>> replacement folding cane and be matched with a successor partner.
>>> Bibi
>>>
>>>
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