and what brought about my anxiety was feeling disabled by the world. i had a huge knock in confidence, i didn t want to leave the house, let alone leave the country. and i think that is why only now, seven years down the line, i am tackling plane journeys, because i feel 0k enough to want to go to other places. it s honestly so mentally draining after going to a new place as a blind person, when you ve never been there before. and i think that is why, when i m in an airport situation, i have tojust say oh, can you please help me ? so you re in what looks like a shopping centre at the moment, so there is lots of people around. it feels really busy. it s really important to not feel overwhelmed in airport situations with a guide dog. you have to rely on your partnership together to get around, and you have to admit
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it is honestly so mentally draining after going to a new place as a blind person, when you have never been there before, and i think that is why when i am in an airport situation i have to just say 0h, can you please help me ? so you are in what looks like a shopping centre at the moment, so there is lots of people around. it feels really busy. it is really important to not feel overwhelmed in airport situations with a guide dog, you have to rely on your partnership together to get around, and you have to admit to yourself as a blind person, yeah, i am not going to know everywhere that i am today. and initially when you do something like that, it is daunting.
things for everyone. i m lucy edwards. i am a radio presenter, freelance journalist, and seven years ago, i was diagnosed as completely blind. before the age of 17, i had usable vision. i would go out and about without a guide dog, without a cane. feeling quite free. where are you travelling to today, madam? - we re travelling to edinburgh. i didn t really have many concerns about where i was going, or i didn t feel anxious at all. and what brought about my anxiety was feeling disabled by the world. i had a huge knock in confidence. i didn t want to leave the house, let alone leave the country. and i think that s why only now, seven years down the line, i am tackling plane journeys because i feel 0k enough to want to go to other places. it s honestly, so mentally draining after going to a new place as a blind person when you ve never been there before. and i think that s why when i m in an airport situation, i have to just say, oh,
commitment to support ukraine, through military and other kinds of economic help, and then of course to assist the ukrainian people who ve been displaced by this unprovoked war. part of what the president saw today was some of the aid work that s going on with this as well as meeting with some of the members of the 82nd airborne that he has sent in to be part of the reinforcement of the nato eastern flank. the president talked about wanting to see even more. and what s interesting, hallie, is he signaled the sort of danger of the president being as close to the ukrainian border as he was today, and some of our colleagues were a part of the traveling pool with the president, having seen some of the defensive weapons that were in place that are not typically a part of a normal airport situation that were clearly there when the united states president and the polish president were that close to the border, knowing there are russian military elements just miles away really. and so a threat