[nagdu] 2 things, what is a sleep shade, and update on my application

Wed May 23 23:27:37 UTC 2012

Lyn,

Teehee. Too funny. The problem is, that was in reports from more than 
one person from the agency...  Clearly, it was tacked on after the main 
report was written in all cases... Hm. That wasn't even the most extreme 
divergence from the plausible, if you can believe that. This is how the 
agency functions, it seems, and it is clearly a top down problem and 
clearly the new board is not about to do the obviously rational thing to 
solve that problem. Sigh.

The fact that the agency informed the guide dog program in question that 
I can navigate and all under sleepshade using my really great vision is 
one thing. However, the guide dog program did choose to say on its own 
letterhead that I have really great vision that I use to read street 
signs and so don't need a guide dog. I am not making that up!

So I did consider applying elsewhere at the time, but couldn't get past 
the "who needs it" part of the decision-making process there. So I ended 
up getting a poodle pup and here I am. /lol/ I know more about guide dog 
schools in generally and about a lot of them specifically now, so don't 
rue the day I will need to apply again. I'm just super cynical about the 
patronization, condescension, etc., factor one so often encounters when 
it comes to resources for The Blind. /smile/ Not all people involved in 
being gateways for those resources are of the sort I have come so 
quickly to loathe, so I can simply target dealing with them instead. /smile/

Tami

On 05/23/2012 03:40 PM, Lyn Gwizdak wrote:
> Hey Tami, maybe that person from the agency who thought you had great 
> vision inside that sleepshade must have worn it first! It was the 
> crazy video in her brain projected from the back of her eyeballs - so 
> she/he thought you'd see the same thing! Hahahahaha!  Were they 
> smoking something good???
>
> Lyn and Landon
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tami Kinney" 
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> Subject: Re: [nagdu] 2 things, what is a sleep shade,and update on my 
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>> Jenny,
>>
>> Good for you! You must be so excited by now!
>>
>> A sleep shade is a blindfold, and one cannot see through it. In other 
>> words, when an assessment of my ability to perform tasks of any sort 
>> under sleepshade results in the conclusion that I am using my "really 
>> great vision," there is something inherently implausible about that 
>> conclusion. Because, of course, no one can use their vision to do 
>> anything while wearing a sleep shade! That's the point of the 
>> sleepshade. Sigh.
>>
>> In other words... I don't have really good vision, to begin with, 
>> didn't then, have less now. My eye exams at the time indicated that I 
>> did not have vision to use in reading street signs, etc., etc., that 
>> I was past reading print even. I hadn't been able to read street 
>> signs since before I was legally blind, actually. Didn't have good 
>> enough vision even with correction to do that!
>>
>> So the really great vision under sleepshade isn't the only obviously, 
>> er, crazy thing this agency has come up with, and I'm not the only 
>> one to have had such "determinations" made that impact VR, reports to 
>> guide dog schools, etc. For some reason, though, these things are 
>> believed... Go figure!
>>
>> Anyway, glad you are getting on with your application and closer to 
>> being matched to your new partner!
>>
>> Tami
>>
>> On 05/22/2012 06:57 PM, Jenny Keller wrote:
>>> I thought a sleep shade was kind of like a blind fold, but from 
>>> other posts, it sounds like you can see through it.  Which is it?
>>>
>>> the other thing is that my rehab stuff has cleared through my 
>>> school, and once my TB test is looked at either tomorrow or 
>>> Thursday, my doctor will clear me too.  I'm just waiting on my 
>>> mental health clearance, which I've heard nothing about yet.  I'm 
>>> going to call my people there and light a fire under them to get it 
>>> going.
>>>
>>> they say that the nurse will then have to look all of that over and 
>>> then clear it.  Once it's decided by the nurse that all is well, the 
>>> home interview will be scheduled.
>>>
>>> Cross fingers, or pray, or whatever you do to send good energy to 
>>> the school.
>>>
>>> I think I'm almost half way there to getting a dog.
>>>
>>> glad to hear from all of you and glad that all of you are doing well.
>>>
>>> thinking about you all.
>>>
>>> Jenny
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