{"id":1527,"date":"2023-06-29T10:24:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T10:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seeingeyes.co.il\/?post_type=storie&#038;p=1527"},"modified":"2023-06-29T10:25:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T10:25:06","slug":"nufar-shafir-and-her-dog-baileys","status":"publish","type":"storie","link":"https:\/\/seeingeyes.co.il\/en\/storie\/nufar-shafir-and-her-dog-baileys\/","title":{"rendered":"Nufar Shafir and her dog Baileys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>I was always told that there is one life before and another life after, but I never understood what that meant.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">My name is Nufar Shafir, 33 years old, mother of three young daughters. The youngest is two and a half years old.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">About three years ago, on my twenty-eighth birthday, I was injured in the head by a football and lost my sight within four hours. After several operations, I was still partially blind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">About a year and a half ago, I went through rehabilitation training with a cane, but was unable to regain my independence and security that have been taken from me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">The realization that something big needed to change began the day I took my middle daughter, who was four years old at the time, to a friend. I didn&#8217;t recognize with the cane that I had stepped down into the road. My younger daughter, a baby at the time, was on me in a carrier. Suddenly, in the middle of the road, I heard the loud honk of a car, and only then did I understand where I was. My daughter had just let go of my hand because she had dropped something. The helplessness and panic I experienced at that moment paralyzed me. I started screaming at my daughter, so that she would give me her hand, and figure out the way back to the sidewalk. Since then, I haven&#8217;t gone out with my daughters anymore. I realized it&#8217;s too dangerous and I can&#8217;t go on like this!<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Today, after a professional and intensive course for guide dogs at &#8220;Seeing Eyes for the Blind&#8221;, I realized that I could go back to being a more independent mother, because my amazing dog Baileys will notify me before going down the road. The confidence to take my daughters with me is back &#8211; the excitement to return to being an independent mother is huge &#8211; this is a dream come true.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">The tears that are in my eyes are mixed with the words written now, out of feelings of gratitude and appreciation for &#8220;Seeing Eyes for the Blind&#8221;: To the amazing team that gave me Baileys, who taught me professionally and devotedly how to walk with her. Thank you for a perfect match of the dog and me, that even resembles me in her personality. <strong>Thanks a million!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1361,"template":"","class_list":["post-1527","storie","type-storie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","story-type-guide-dogs-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeingeyes.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/storie\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeingeyes.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/storie"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeingeyes.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/storie"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seeingeyes.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeingeyes.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}