[nagdu] Introduction

[Debbie Cole]

Congratulations Sarah!
How did the graduation go?

You should have seen tyanne's costume he wore.  So cute

On 10/11/12, Sarah <coastergirl92 at gmail.com> wrote:
> ,
>
> My name is Sarah and I'm working my first dog, a male black
> Labrador Retriever named Wizard! He's beautiful we've been a team
> for 3 weeki.
>
> Sarah and Wizard
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vanessa Lowery" <vlowery at dhr.state.md.us
> To: "the National Association of Guide Dog Users NAGDU Mailing
> List" <nagdu at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:22:46 -0400
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Introduction
>
> Welcome to the list.  I am Vanessa from Maryland wiht my fifth
> dog from The Seeing Eye.  he is a black lab named Griffin.
>
> I actually know at least one grad from The Seeing Eye's whose dog
> also provides balance.  The gentleman suffered an aneurysm and
> could not continue to work the dog that he had at the time.  She
> was too small and lively.  Once he had sufficiently recovered, he
> was matched wiht a very large male lab.  I don't know if the dog
> needs to provide balance help now, but that was one of his jobs
> when he and the gentleman were teamed together.
>
>
>
> Vanessa Lowery, LGSW
> Adult and Community Services Division
> Adult Services Screening Unit
> 410-853-3550
> VLowery at dhr.state.md.us
>
>
>  mary wurtzel <marywurtzel at att.net> 10/10/2012 7:06 AM
> 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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-- 
warmly,

Debbie Cole

debbieanne1124 at gmail.com