Ahriman
Green Belt
I had to write it somewhere.
My dearest one became 99.8% blind in 2007.09.06. (more correctly in the cca 10 hours from 09.05's evening to 09.06's morning) All of us were shocked of course... She learnt the Braille alphabet in about 2 weeks and got used to it extremely fast. She learned to use the white stick or whatsitsname in english, but was always afraid of going around in town while only relying on that.
In January, we contacted an organization training dogs to assist the blind. They were very kind and we became friends with the head instructor. Her dog, Rumi, moved here 2008.02.14. to finish the training. While living together with Rumi, a new problem emerged - my girlfriends epileptic rushes got very dense, she had about 2 daily. Rumi signalled every one in time, so the times of breaking wrists and ribs are gone - and he can assist her to wake in about a minute instead of the earlier 10-15 minutes... all this without any kind of special training.
And yesterday, they had the safety exam, and they passed brilliantly. Now on, she can freely go around without escort - a thing she missed in the last months very much. Her mother bought a bottle of her favourite wine, and Zsuzsi signed it with "2008 May 15: the day of freedom".
According to our and the trainers' sources, Zsuzsi was the first one in the world to get a blind assistant dog with epilepsia. They work together wonderfully, and are training to become the worlds first rescue dog team with a blind operator.
And while training with Rumi, training with weapons and learning for school exams, she still have time to help around the house, to paint and to write her books.
I am very, very happy that I've found her and we are together since.
My dearest one became 99.8% blind in 2007.09.06. (more correctly in the cca 10 hours from 09.05's evening to 09.06's morning) All of us were shocked of course... She learnt the Braille alphabet in about 2 weeks and got used to it extremely fast. She learned to use the white stick or whatsitsname in english, but was always afraid of going around in town while only relying on that.
In January, we contacted an organization training dogs to assist the blind. They were very kind and we became friends with the head instructor. Her dog, Rumi, moved here 2008.02.14. to finish the training. While living together with Rumi, a new problem emerged - my girlfriends epileptic rushes got very dense, she had about 2 daily. Rumi signalled every one in time, so the times of breaking wrists and ribs are gone - and he can assist her to wake in about a minute instead of the earlier 10-15 minutes... all this without any kind of special training.
And yesterday, they had the safety exam, and they passed brilliantly. Now on, she can freely go around without escort - a thing she missed in the last months very much. Her mother bought a bottle of her favourite wine, and Zsuzsi signed it with "2008 May 15: the day of freedom".
According to our and the trainers' sources, Zsuzsi was the first one in the world to get a blind assistant dog with epilepsia. They work together wonderfully, and are training to become the worlds first rescue dog team with a blind operator.
And while training with Rumi, training with weapons and learning for school exams, she still have time to help around the house, to paint and to write her books.
I am very, very happy that I've found her and we are together since.
