Yesterday, Sarah flew into LaGuardia Airport as one of two invited guests (and their O & M instructors), to be a part of a pilot program that the non-profit Guiding Eyes organization is hoping to launch. She will be working with the organization to create a transitional program to better help visually impaired individuals transitioning from a cane to a guide dog. She currently has her own application pending for a guide dog through this same organization, so she was super stoked not only to help pilot this program, but to also possibly be in the same place as her own future guide dog. (The average waiting period once your application is approved is 12 months to be paired up with your own guide dog, so it may not happen for her this summer, but she is hoping that being part of this pilot programs, and the fact that she is going to college in the fall might help to move her application to the top of the pile thus speeding up the 12 month average wait.)
Sarah will be in New York until Thursday when she will fly home and land back in Charlotte at approximately 9:30 pm. Her days are jam packed with activities, and I am sure she will be coming home with many tales to tell. She has already sent text messages to the family multiple times with lots of exclamation points in them as everything is so thrilling for her.
Sarah is now at a point in her life where all of her years of hard work trying to learn to be an independent individual are about to pay off. Between getting a guide dog, traveling alone, and going to college she is on the brink of one of the greatest chapters of her life. She is at the launching point of independence which is such a huge feat for her. I could not be more proud of her.
I am so excited to see where these next few months take her and what doors open up for her. She certainly deserves all of the good fortune coming her way.
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