[nagdu] Introduction

[Larry D. Keeler]

Well, Mary, I was writing to both lists and I must have forgotten the nagdu 
guys!  Can't do that!  They're a lot of help!
----- 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: Thursday, October 11, 2012 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Introduction


> 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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