[NAGDU] Staying together

[Dan Weiner]

Totally understand you, and sighted guide doesn't bother me either, but
following can be very useful. For example, if I wanted to stay with someone
but walk on my own for whatever reason, maintaining my safety and so on,
it's a good tool that not necessarily needs to be used if you don't like it.
Just my opinion and happy to see you on list.

But I'll admit I did use it a lot when in college, working, and traveling,
sometimes sighted guide was easier, sometimes following was good.For examle,
if I wanted to get familiar with a route and work my dog at a same time I
might follow someone getting a feel for turns and so on.

We're all different of course.


Dan the man
 

-----Original Message-----
From: NAGDU [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Star Gazer via
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Sent: Friday, September 02, 2016 8:20 AM
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Subject: Re: [NAGDU] Staying together

			Interesting how we are all different. I truly
*hated* the follow command. Sighted guide didn't and doesn't bother me a
bit. 

-----Original Message-----
From: NAGDU [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Rachel Grider via
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Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2016 10:12 AM
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Cc: Rachel Grider <rachel.grider at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [NAGDU] Staying together

Since he is your husband, linking arms or holding hands would be totally
acceptible. Someone else, maybe not, but there is always sighted guide. I
personally don't like cited guide because I don't like feeling that I am not
in control of where I am going, but I think in this case where it is only
being used for two blind people to stay together, it may be a good solution.
I will link arms with my  sighted mother sometimes when we are in a crowded
area just to stay together, but she is the only person I will do that with
because she is my mother.

Another thought: could you go behind your husband and give your dog a follow
command? If someone is showing me where to go, like for example if I am in a
store and someone from customer service is helping me find things, I can go
behind the person with my dog and tell her to follow. The same thing if I am
in a large group of people walking somewhere and there are people in front
of me in my group. I don't like doing that often, But it works in some
cases.

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> On Sep 1, 2016, at 06:29, Jody Ianuzzi via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello Tracy,
> 
> Why don't you walk cited guide. Or you could  walk arm in arm.  That 
> would
be acceptable even if you both could see.
> 
> JODY
> 
> thunderwalker321 at gmail.com
> 
> 50 Years of STAR TREK
> 
> "Live Long and Prosper."
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>> On Sep 1, 2016, at 8:22 AM, Tracy Carcione via NAGDU 
>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
wrote:
>> 
>> My husband Jerry uses a cane, and I of course use a guide dog.  My 
>> husband has lost a lot of vision, and we are having trouble staying 
>> together when passing through big, open spaces, like fancy hotel 
>> lobbies or the bus terminal.  Either Krokus gets into a groove and 
>> Jerry can't keep up, or Krokus starts screwing around and Jerry goes 
>> off ahead.  Sometimes I grab Jerry's hand and pull him along, or we 
>> start
calling loudly to each other.
>> Neither one feels very dignified.  
>> 
>> Do people have methods that work to keep a cane user and a dog user 
>> in contact?  I've heard some people wear a bell, but does that really 
>> work, in an open, noisy environment?
>> 
>> I'd like to figure out something that works, and doesn't make us both 
>> feel ridiculous.
>> 
>> Tracy
>> 
>> 
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