A conversation that I always find amusing goes like this ...
"Are you training that dog?" me: No, she is my guide dog, I have reetinitis pigmentosa and have 3% vision remainig in the center (usually forming my hands in a tunnel like)so she is very helpful ... (blah, blah whatever fits the conversation)I'm legally blind ... "Oh, that is cool... but can you still drive?" then I smile and say no ... (sometimes a longer discussion) but it just is always so funny that after I have just told someone that I can only see the size of a quarter if it is right in front of me - do you really want to even consider me on the roads?
Anyone have a better way to explain?
The journeys of Becky, blind from retinitis pigmentosa, and her beauitiful guide dogs.
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"Are you training that dog?"
really irritates me. I hear it up to ten times a day depending on how busy we are.
To me it does not show sincere interest in either of us, I resent having to explain my medical history.
Wish I could be more open hearted about this.
They might as well say 'you're dog looks like a first grader' and 'you look fine to me'. Great! Now where does the conversation go? "good bye'
Agree ... makes for some interesting conversations. I was once on an elevator with my opthalmologist when someone asked me about my eyes -- he found it SO amusing because he had seen them and knew I really did need the dog.
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