[nagdu] Introduction

Thu Oct 11 17:46:03 UTC 2012

What did she wear? The graduation went amazing! I was really 
emotional.

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Debbie Cole <debbieanne1124 at gmail.com
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog 
Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:35:40 -0700
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Introduction

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

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