[nagdu] Hello

[Julie J.]

Eve I'm not sure if you are referring to me as the one crabby woman or 
the individual who wanted to take my dog's picture, whom I refused.  If 
it's me, I assure you that I was very upset with the events that 
weekend.  It has taken me some time to get over it enough that I can 
talk about it.  Please note it has been more than six months since this 
happened.  I also stated very clearly in my message that there are lots 
of Lions who are good people doing great things.  It is only a few who 
are spoiling it.   I tried very hard not to come across as crabby in my 
message.  However I absolutely refuse to be silent about a real 
experience I had.  We are never going to change what it means to be 
blind if we don't get real honest about the issues we are facing.

If it was the other woman you were referring to, well yes she was 
crabby.  Most of the others I encountered that weekend I wouldn't call 
crabby, but they certainly didn't have  what I would call a great 
attitude about blindness in general and very specifically my choice to 
owner train my guide.  If it was a single woman that I had a problem 
with, I could have easily dealt with it.  That was pretty far from my 
Lions experience though.

Julie

15/2013 10:46 AM, Eve Sanchez wrote:
> I'm sorry, but it seems you all are quite misimformed. As a Lion and a
> Pilot Alumni I could tell you that the Lions International supports
> many different schools for guide dogs. Pilot actually is supported
> almost wholey by Lions, more than any other school including Leader.
> Lions often will support the schools in their areas also such as Guide
> Dogs of America and etc. The point of Lions is to support vision care
> and those with vision loss and issues. Right now, we are working on
> establishing more diabetic education and testing. Are we going to not
> include someone who may already be involved with another diabeties
> association? No way. This is not like NFB and ACB. Everyone get along
> as they should, so I do not know why or where you are getting your
> information. One crabby woman does not make the worldwide membership
> and should not be the loudest voice heard. Eve
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 7:13 AM, d m gina<dmgina at samobile.net>  wrote:
>> Julie J I don't have your email address in my address book so will answer
>> here.
>> I am really sorry this has happened.
>> I know here in Montana the lions said leader dogs only.
>> My reply was, that is fine, if you allowed more blind to come into your club
>> showing that we can get just as much done as you do, working together, we
>> all would get something out of this.
>> In our city transportation is unreal.
>> I didn't want to pay for cab fare all of the time, when I felt someone in
>> our area could help me out.
>> We do have blind as lions, where they have a driver.
>> A father and son team, a lady taking her blind friend.
>> the lady that passed away had her sighted husband.
>> The rest of us have cabs.
>> Now I am trying to think how to add seeing eye now that the leader dog lady
>> has passed away.
>> there is another person in town who has a seeing eye dog, works all of the
>> time, stays pretty much to himself.
>> If anyone has tips I would spring this to the father and son team.
>> Again I am really sorry this happened.
>> In my ladies group, the ladies are impressed how behaved my dog is.
>> One lady just about had a kitten when my dog looked at the plate of cookies.
>> Loll, I just moved his head and we started walking away from the table.
>> I am sure if he had his way he would have helped out with each cookie.
>> But he didn't, so that was good.
>> Again I am really sorry this happened.
>> Why did they want your dog in the picture when they gave you the rath of God
>> because you trained your own dog?
>>
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