[sasi] Dog Guides

[Rick Roderick]

I really feel a frustration right now.  I have been told that I need a dog 
guide more because of my worsening hearing.  Yet, that is also the reason 
that it is harder for me to use one.

I don't have the directional hearing that I once had.  I have a more 
difficult time hearing distance from traffic.  With my cochlear implant, I 
sometimes hear too well in some ways and not well enough in others.  By too 
well, I mean that hearing the distance of traffic from me can be a real 
problem, and the main street near here gets quite busy.

By not well enough, I still have a lot of trouble with environmaneal noise. 
Traffic noise can obscure people talking to me.

Quattro has a veering problem, and I have been working with the school and 
volunteers to get things straightened out.  We have several curbcuts which 
were poorly designed.  If I followed them, the would take me diagonally 
accross the intersections.  This would be a very dangerous thing.

Have any of you had these problems, and how did you overcvome them?