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I stood there, facing the tree, and thought about the best way to navigate my way around it. I reached a decision, based mostly on chance, extended my white cane and tentatively took my first step… And walked straight into a tree branch. When I first lost my sight I was taught how to navigate …
Hi everyone, it’s me – Fiji’s mom, Lois. This is an incredibly difficult post to write. It is written with pain and grief, and yet with a sense of profound joy and love. I had to let my beloved guide dog Fiji go after a short illness. She went into liver failure from an undiagnosed …
Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji! I’m so excited! It is finally October – the month where I am the calendar model for the 2023 SA Guide-Dogs Association for the Blind calendar. I remember I told you that I was going to be a calendar model, back when the photographs were taken. But back then …
Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji. I don’t believe it! It’s just not right! A few days ago I finally relented and told Mom she was no longer grounded. If you remember, I grounded her when she returned from Mauritius at the end of last year and told her she wasn’t allowed to leave the …
Note from Lois: For Fiji’s non-South African readers, load shedding is a system of scheduled rolling electrical blackouts that can affect us for periods of two hours several times a day. Hi everyone, it’s me – Fiji! I usually feel like we dogs make perfect sense. Most of the time, humans also make sense. But …
Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji This morning my doggy brother Onyx asked me such a silly question. He asked me why I sleep under Mom and Dad’s bed. I thought he was rather rude to have asked me. I mean, I don’t ask him why he sometimes sleeps in the bedroom and sometimes in …
Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji: As you no doubt realized, Mom is still away overseas. So I’m grabbing the opportunity to steal a few extra blog posts while she’s away. Anyway, as I was lying in my bed this morning, still dreaming about the mountains of food that I imagine must …
Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji! I know I don’t usually write for Mom’s blog in the middle of the month, but Mom has been so busy recently that I thought I would help her out by blogging for her. After all, I am a guide dog, and my task is to help …
Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji Do you know what really confuses me? Where time goes and how it is so elastic. Can anyone explain it to me? I mean, doesn’t it make sense for time to be a constant? Mom sometimes uses the timer on her watch or phone to measure a specific amount …
Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji! I know I already posted an article this month but I decided to steal this post from Mom because it was her birthday on Sunday. Because she probably won’t tell you what her special day was like… Mom’s just like that sometimes. I miss the days when Mom used …