<div>Hi everyone,</div>
<div> The person who left this message is a friend of mine. I try to explain our beliefs & such with her, but she's the type of person that if you don't believe the same as she does then your wrong. I apologize for the uproar this caused & I gave her the GL talking bulliten board line to try to keep from giving her anyone's direct number.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Nickie Pearl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:njp@insightbb.com">njp@insightbb.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Obviously, if someone has a medical condition that can be deadly, sure, they may want to take the steps to let people know. If your only issue is blindness , I do not see the need. I would not wear one. To each their own but as a whole blind people don't need them.<br>
I've been in situations with Migraines in the ER where the doc asks me to follow his finger with my eyes...I simply say "I'm blind and can not see your finger" The doc will move on to a different type of test.<br>
The person who left the message on our bulletin board, means well but is not blind and is not around the NFB enough to get it. I've thought alot about her message over the past few days and after calming down I believe she may advocate in a different way then us. I know our blindness is different than her issues and if she is so concerned about what we are doing or not doing, I invite her to join us more than once a year and really find out what the NFB is all about.<br>
<br>Thank You!<br>NIckie<br>-----Original Message----- From: Cathy
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<div class="im">To: NFB of Kentucky Internet Mailing List<br></div>Subject: [Nfbk] NFB Philosophy
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<div class="h5"><br><br>Good Afternoon All,<br><br>I had the opportunity to listen to a message that was left on the NFB of<br>Greater Louisville Talking Bulletin board. The lady who left the message is<br>disabled, but not a member of our organization. She ranted on about what she<br>
thought was wrong with the NFB and what we needed to do to correct our<br>mistakes. It was clear to me after listening to her message and having a<br>telephone conversation with her, she really doesn't have a clue about what<br>
NFB stands for. Nevertheless, one proposal she presented really got my<br>attention. She believes that blind people should wear medic alert bracelets.<br>When I questioned her as to why she thought this would be beneficial, she<br>
commented, and I paraphrase, well we might get up off the stretcher or ER<br>bed and run into a wall, or we wouldn't know what was available to us.<br>Obviously if someone has a medical condition that is life-threatening, or<br>
may present itself in such a way that medical personnel may misinterpret the<br>symptoms, one should wear a medic alert bracelet. Blindness is NOT one of<br>those conditions. The blind people I know aren't going to leap out of a bed<br>
and run into a wall. This is exactly the kind of negative attitudes that we<br>must continue of fight. I want to hear your comments.<br><br>Cathy<br><br><br>______________________________<u></u>_________________<br>Nfbk mailing list<br>
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