[nagdu] Introduction

Thu Oct 11 19:07:18 UTC 2012

I was emotional at the very end when Bill was singing that song.
But my speech made bob Wendler cry on stage.    tyanne is pregnant
with ehr baby and wore a Baby Spongebob Costume.  I think she bought
tht either for halloween or for tjhe graduation not sure.

On 10/11/12, Sarah <coastergirl92 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> debbieanne1124 at gmail.com
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warmly,

Debbie Cole

debbieanne1124 at gmail.com