[nagdu] Did anyone watch the home makeover show yesterday. the family has a guide dog and are diabetics, but they didn't go into any of that at all.

[Wayne Merritt]

Also, did anyone catch the fact that it's dangerous as a blind person
to live in a home and not know where anything was? This was brought up
by the parents and the show designers. I suppose I should feel
somewhat safe since I live in a 700 square foot apartment, but what if
I move up in homes to a condo or heaven forbid,a larger house?

Wayne

On 12/6/10, cheryl echevarria <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Good morning all:
>
> This was the second time that ABC Extreme Home Make Over did a  home make
> over for a blind family.
>
> The got some stuff right, but again I have some questions, some about the
> family, and some about what ABC did?
>
> Question about the Anderson family.  Now these are questions I may right to
> the show about, but mostly they are pondering in my head to share with all.
>
> The Anderson Family
>
> 1.  They are from what I understand and family who gives support to other
> people with disabilities.  One of my questions is are they members of either
> the NFB or another organization, trained in all of this from being in the
> field, or just decided to do it all by themselves.
>
> 2.  They never went into there diabetes, since both of them are diabetic,
> like do they use anything like the prodigy voice or the solo meter to test
> the blood, the team never asked that either.
>
> 3. The husband has a guide dog, but at one point when they were talking to
> the family, my husband said that the dog was in harness and digging a whole
> in the ground. WHAT is that about?
>
> 4.  If they are having problems with the traffic lights, then why didn't
> they just contact the town or the legislative body in there area and get it
> fixed.  If they are a company or business out there helping other blind and
> disabled people shouldn't they be doing this for themselves first before
> helping others to do it.
>
> ABC:  This the 2nd time in 8 Seasons that they have focused or help and
> blind family, and still haven't gotten it correctly.
>
> 1.  The technology.  They didn't say where they got the technology, the
> didn't go to NFB or the other organization for advice, they just went to the
> technology stores that have technology for the blind.
>
> 2. And Electric Cane, now come on, do we if we were taught properly to use
> our canes, do we need a cane that vibrates when we are near something. They
> are diabetic, they can have neuropathy and not be able to tell if they are
> vibrating, etc.
>
> 3. The stove they got, yes she got burned many times, again diabetic, they
> got them the counter tops and wall oven, but they didn't label it or at
> least put raised dots on the stove/oven.
>
>
> To many other issues there.
>
> I don't know if the NFB members ever wrote the first time to ABC and got
> responses on these issues.
>
> But I plan on starting a writing campaign.  Let me know if you are
> interested.
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