[nagdu] Fwd: 5 Reasons Why Guide Dogs Are a Terrible Idea!

[Debby Phillips]

An interesting phenomena or actually the word is sad, is that eye 
doctors tend not to want to hear about how blind people cope, 
what we do, etc.  My husband and I have some friends, the husband 
is an optometrist.  I offered to go to his office and do some 
staff training.  He got really nervous and uncomfortable.  He 
said something like, "We have a hard time dealing with failure".  
For an eye doctor, whose goal it is to prevent blindness, they 
have a hard time when they can't prevent it.  And very few "get 
it" when it comes to offering good recommendations, for 
adjustment to blindness.  It's sad and frustrating, because they 
don't have to have all the answers, but it would be great if they 
would be willing to learn a few things so they wouldn't make 
statements like: "Well, I can't do any more for you, so you'd 
better go get a guide dog".  I'm working on our friend.  He's 
well thought of in the optometry community, so if ow can persuade 
him, maybe he can help to persuade others.     Debby