[nagdu] Introduction

Fri Oct 12 01:21:43 UTC 2012

Congradulations to everyone who has just graduated with a new dog!  I
hope you all enjoy great adventures together.

Ms. Mary, congradulations on starting a new guide dog devision!

Ashley

On 10/11/12, Sarah <coastergirl92 at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's so cool!
>
>  ----- 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 12:07:18 -0700
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Introduction
>
> 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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>  Debbie Cole
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