Lots of long cane work today!

Friday April 21st – A couple of weeks ago we were each assigned a type of blindness with associated deafness to research. Today we gave presentations to each other on our topics. My topic was Usher Syndrome which was interesting to research as we occasionally serve clients with that cause of blindness and GDB. Sue’s presentation was on Rubella, and it was interesting to learn about as I had always known about Rubella in general but never knew much of the details. Sue and I are lucky in that because we do so much public speaking during the course of our jobs, we are very comfortable and confident. Giving presentations to our classmates was a breeze!

More long cane practice followed both morning and afternoon. We are getting ready to add the next element of travel to our routes by going into some busier areas.

At the end of the day we had a lecture from the consulting physician for GDV. He is a general practitioner who spends a few hours every other week reviewing all the medical reports of the clients GDV is planning to serve. He assists the O&M instructors by explaining possible side effects of medications a client might be taking or any other complications they might have.

We interspersed plenty of candy eating and comparisons throughout the day. Sharing tootsie rolls, tootsie pops, Baby Ruth, jujyfruits, and blow pops, to name a few.

This weekend we plan to revisit St Kilda and head to the Yarra valley for some wine tasting. Should be a fairly relaxing weekend!

Today’s Aussie of the day – The expression we use to describe that something is very different form another thing is generally ‘night and day’ or apples to oranges’. Here in Australia they would say “Chalk and Cheese”. Also if you are tired you would say “I’m really stuffed” You could also use this word for when something is really screwed up like a bad traffic day “Sorry I’m late, traffic was stuffed!”