[nagdu] Fwd: RE: Working a guide with a sprained ankle?

[Daryl Marie]

hey, Becky!

Thanks so much for the pointers!  Thankfully I am able to stay off my foot; my boss has permitted me to work from home :)

My ankle is also healing nicely... still very sore, but I have a nice brace on it today, and I can motor on a little more quicly :)

Daryl
----- Original Message -----
From: Becky Frankeberger <b.butterfly at comcast.net>
To: 'Daryl Lang' <crazymusician at shaw.ca>, 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users' <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sun, 08 Feb 2015 15:29:40 -0700 (MST)
Subject: RE: [nagdu] Working a guide with a sprained ankle?

Try to take out all excitement out of your voice. If she has a slow command
use that. So she is still speedy, set her personhood down. Then in a quiet
voice tell her forward, then if she speeds up command her to sit.. Get a
support cane and put it in your right hand as this next idea will be harder
on you. You're starting her with that quiet voice, she speeds up, give her
the command Pilot calls "right about," Which for me as a grad of another
school is a series of right turns to go back from where I just came. Put her
at sit and start again. She speeds up make a 180 degree turn, and go back
again to where you started. It doesn't take long and there are no leash
corrections involved. The dog should always walk your speed, you never walk
faster than you are comfortable.

Also, if she doesn't have a slow speed command, name this move. Seeing Eye
grads know this as "steady." I think Pilot grads call it "easy." So name it
something you are comfortable and will remember easily. 

But mainly get off the foot and ice. She won't die if you don't work her a
few days. Take a cab to work. You are no good to her nor your family if you
keep reinjuring that ankle.  

Warm hugs,

Becky and Jake, "Ims ten years old and proud of it, toothy grin." Love Jake 
-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Daryl Lang via
nagdu
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2015 11:09 AM
To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
Subject: [nagdu] Working a guide with a sprained ankle?

I seem to have sprained my left ankle. I can walk, but it's slow going.
Jenny is still wanting to motor along at a fast clip. This seems to have
resulted in a battle of wills.
Anyone have any pointers?
Daryl
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