Postby Sheenar » Wed Apr 06, 2011 4:51 pm
What my first dog helped me with (and what Leon will help with) is mainly counterbalance while walking so I don't fall, help up/down stairs, help out of a chair, help off of the ground/floor, retrieval, tugging off socks/jackets, opening doors/pushing door buttons, some hearing tasks (like signaling me when someone says my name) and a few other things.
I have a neuromuscular disorder (yet to be diagnosed, but thought to be a form of muscular dystrophy) that affects my balance, muscle strength, endurance, etc. I have also begun to lose my hearing, so the hearing tasks will come in real handy.
"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
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