[nagdu] Introduction

[Larry D. Keeler]

Of course, you're right!  I've been running around so much that it seems 
closer!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray at gmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Introduction


>I thought yo  ur convention was a week from now, not this weekend.
>
> Cindy Lou
>
> On Oct 10, 2012, at 9:58 PM, Larry D. Keeler wrote:
>
>> Hi Mary!  Gues who!!  Se you on Friday!  Marion Posont an a couple of 
>> otherw whonm you'll meet at convention were just talking about the great 
>> things we'll be doing this weekend having to do with forming our group! 
>> William Vandervest whom you also know attended as well!  Looking forward 
>> to seeing you and felix!
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "mary wurtzel" <marywurtzel at att.net>
>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 7:06 AM
>> Subject: [nagdu] Introduction
>>
>>
>>> Hello list,
>>> My name is Mary Wurtzel, and I just joined this list.
>>> I have a male black lab named Felix who is a balance dog as well as a 
>>> guide dog.  I went to the Guide Dog Foundation last February.  As far as 
>>> I know, this is the only guide dog schl that trains dogs specifically to 
>>> help with balance issues.
>>> I have been falling when walking for many years.  It would happen if I 
>>> hit a particularly big crack inthe sidewalk, or if I got too close to 
>>> the edge of the walk and hit a large edge down.  The falling became 
>>> worse,  to the point that I feared falling more and more.
>>> I tried to get a guide dog in 2004 but was not allowed to stay at the 
>>> schl and graduate.   The good thing that came out of this horrible 
>>> experience was that I discovered the reason for my falling.
>>> I am blind because of being a premie, and I also have very mild 
>>> cereberal Palsy.
>>> I have had this difficulty all my life and was never diagnosed.  I grew 
>>> up thinking I was just uncoordinated.  I worked ten times harder just to 
>>> become an alternate cheer leader.
>>> Sorry for such a long story, but now I can walk again all by myself.  I 
>>> am going quite fast, too.  Anyone who may know a person like my husband, 
>>> Fred, knows there are some cane users who are very confident and walk 
>>> very very fast.  I was always being left inthe dust.  Well, now Felix 
>>> and I can give Fred   a bit of a run for his  money!!!
>>> Fred would never never have a guide  dog,  so blind people can have 
>>> differences of opinion on the travel mode and still live together in 
>>> harmony!! It will be thirty-six years on December 4th.
>>> I will cut this epistle a bit short.  I have already found the list 
>>> ideas interesting.
>>> We will be forming a guide dog division at our state convention here in 
>>> Michigan in a little over a week.
>>> I am sure this list will provide us with issues which we can work on.
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Mary Wurtzel
>>>
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