[nagdu] Introduction

[d m gina]

Hi there,
My name is Dar, welcome to the list.
yes my husband Jim is also a cane user, and I am a dog user.
We still get along just fine.
Smile,
We both travel in our own ways, that is good.
yes this list has all kinds of information.
Glad you are here.
You can write me off list if you wish,
dmgina at samobile.net.

Original message:
> 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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