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[Heather]

I think you did good. IT sounds like that lady, should had asked you if she could grab your hand before she did, that was clearly a violation of personal space! I do not care how good intentioned someone is, they have no right putting their hands on someone else without   asking them first; period!  Yes, they seem to do it a lot with blind and deaf blind. I had someone come up to me and just grab me because they wanted me to move and I did not hear them. I almost fel down. So the person with me, had to tell them that assaulting me was not the way to get the message across. That person was quite ashamed because I was not just being rude and they could had found a better way to ask me to move! So the tec or doctor, she should have asked the interpreter if she could guide you to the spot  with your hand and the interpreter could have told you before she just grabbed your hand. Someone needs some training at that place for sure! Heather 

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From: Ineko Gary via NFB-DB
Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 2:20 PM
To: nfb-db at nfbnet.org
Cc: Ineko Gary
Subject: [NFB-DB] To the deaf-blind mailing list

Greetings all

I have a question to ask everyone who is deaf blind.

On Friday the 30th I hope last month. I had my sign language interpreter that does tactile meet me there. And I told him before I lay down on the movie in bed I need to take out my hearing aids. So my find language interpreter told the lady before I lay down I need to take out my hearing aids. She told us that I can lay down with the hearing aids in. And me and my sign language interpreter kept telling her that it is on comfortable for me myself to lay down with hearing aids in. And then she told my sign language interpreter it’s OK because I still can hear a little bit without them. Am I sign language interpreter told her that I’m totally deaf without my hearing aids. And then she told me to look up at the lights that will flash right to live to tell me went to breathe and not breathe or to Relief©. And the writing also that will say the same thing. My interpreter told her I can not see she said oh yes she can I see a little bit. Me and the interpreter said no that I only see a tiny tiny bit of light and it Hass to be close to my face to see that tiny bit of light. And she’s like well then she can see the light up here. And the interpreter said no she cannot you have to be close to her face and that’s too far up. That I am totally blind with a tiny bit of light. And my biggest problem was I had my left hand to my interpreter signing into my left hand because I’m left-handed so he needed my left hand to detect house I language. So I was using my right hand to feel on the bed that moves into the scanner and out on which way to go and I go mad because the lady grabbed my right hand and then I could not feel the movie bad and she told the interpreter she got me I could just lay down. And I was trying to take my hand away from her. So I turned to my interpreter and was signing with one hand because I couldn’t sign with the other one telling him to tell her to please let go of my right hand that this is how I see it with my hands. And her holding my hand is like putting my hand over her eyes where she can’t see. At first she didn’t want to let go. But when she saw me pulling my hand away from her to feel by myself which way to lay down she finally let go.

Question did I tell all of this correctly to my tactile  sign language interpreter?

I have to yes use only my left hand to do  tactile sign language. Because one I can barely feel the signing through or with the right hand. But I can sign a little bit with the right hand along with the left. But when they are doing tactile sign language in my left hand I need my right hand to feel where everything is at. So did I do right by telling the lady to let go out of my right hand so I can see with my hand on which way do you lay down?

Lots of love always 
Ineko 

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