[nagdu] Issues

[Margo and Arrow]

yes, and people assume they must talk about us and figure out for us what to 
do and make decisions for us because, goodness knows, we blind folks have 
blown minds, too, and cannot possibly make those choices.

People want to think of what's best for us and forget we can either make 
those deicsions or collaborate with them to come up with the best decisions.

If she'd called and voiced a concern about it and then asked what you 
thought about this concern and then you all could have a meaningful, 
hopefully meaningful, dialog about it, that could have been good.  But, to 
talk about it and to call you to tell you what to do, nope.

Margo and Arrow
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray at gmail.com>
To: "the National Association of Guide Dog Users NAGDU Mailing List" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 7:32 PM
Subject: [nagdu] Issues


> Well, I think I'll bring up a new issue just for grins. Let's imagine you 
> are going to give blood one day. Let's imagine that you are planning to 
> give blood at this blood drive. OK, I don't have to imagine this because I 
> am. I haven't been able to give for a couple of times because of an 
> infected tooth, but that's TMI. So I am truly looking forward to it. My 
> phone rang, and the lady on the other end of the line identified herself, 
> and she was from the blood center. She said, "I understand you are 
> planning to gie blood at the Westminster Blood Drive. Now, we understand 
> you have a service dog. [I think that was her terminology.] We are going 
> to be using a blood mobile and the aisles are narrow in there. We've been 
> talking about it and wondering if you could leave the dog at the 
> refreshment end so he won't get stepped on." Who was talking about it. Why 
> wouldn't they assume that I had been using a dog long enough to know how 
> to handle situations like that? Truth be told, I had had him in
> there when I accompanied Bob in the next to last time we were going to 
> give. I don't doubt that the dog is btter off left in a more comfortable 
> place, but I don't need someone explaining to me why that might be and 
> asking me if I would mind to not bring him in there because of the narrow 
> aisles. I have a feeling I would have thought of it on my own, and I did 
> actually express my displeasure. I told her the fact that she assumed I 
> wouldn't figure out the best place for my dog was rather annoying. She 
> said she was sorry, she had just wanted to make it better and guessed she 
> had not. Before anybody tells me I might have been more tactful, I would 
> say that they would be right, but I think after you've used a dog six 
> months or less, and especially after twenty-two years, you are likely to 
> know how to handle the dog in a tight situation.
>
> Cindy Lou
>
>
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