[nagdu] Introduction

[mary wurtzel]

It is the 19th, 20th 21st of October.  I tend to misspeak 
sometimes.  Too many senior momentsffin!!
Mary

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: Cindy Ray <cindyray at gmail.com
>To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog 
Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:00:28 -0500
>Subject: Re: [nagdu] Introduction

>I thought yo  ur convention was a week from now, not this 
weekend.

>Cindy Lou

>On Oct 10, 2012, at 9:58 PM, Larry D.  Keeler wrote:

>> Hi Mary!  Gues who!!  Se you on Friday!  Marion Posont an a 
couple of otherw whonm you'll meet at convention were just 
talking about the great things we'll be doing this weekend having 
to do with forming our group!  William Vandervest whom you also 
know attended as well!  Looking forward to seeing you and felix!
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "mary wurtzel" 
<marywurtzel at att.net
>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog 
Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 7:06 AM
>> Subject: [nagdu] Introduction


>>> 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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