[nagdu] Attaching the Cane to the Harness

Fri Jul 15 12:06:33 UTC 2011

Gary,
    I completely understand about not using your hands to gain information 
in a public bathroom! I don't even let my dog get too close to the urinals 
and, unless it is a very urgent situation, never use anything else! In fact, 
if you ever notice that paper towel behind the door, I dropped it there so I 
didn't need to touch the handle. Not everyone washes their hands in there, 
don't ya know!
    Frankly, I have gotten out of the habit of carrying my white cane with 
me since I broke my telescopic one. It's a bit challenging to tote a 69" 
length of carbon fiber around! Now I have one of the new NFB carbon fiber 
telescopic canes in its nifty little carrying case and I will be able to 
return to it.
    Since it has a carrying case, I am wondering if I could run a couple of 
zip ties through it at the seams and attach it to the handle of the harness. 
I'm going to check it out! I wonder if NFB sells the carrying cases 
separately!
    NAGDU has entertained the possibility of selling harness pouches as a 
fund raiser, so we will keep the idea of toting the cane in mind while 
deciding upon such a thing in the future.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GARY STEEVES" <rainshadowmusic at shaw.ca>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 4:35 PM
Subject: [nagdu] carrying white cane


> 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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