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Posted December 30th, 2012 - 11:06 pm by 
from Golden, United States (Permalink)
from Golden, United States (Permalink)Elena
You should post pictures of you and your daughter. It seems that you are trying to use couchsurfing to raise money. However, no one knows if your story is true or if you are simply creating a scam and trying to collect money and have no intention of moving. The purpose of couchsurfing is not to raise money, but to share experiences, share culture, share ones stories and share ones house/apartment with travelers and to be a traveler yourself.
So we are all waiting for you to post pictures so that we can see you and your daughter, so that we know this is a real story and maybe you can get visitors who bring generous gifts.
For you it is best to stay in the EU because medicine is free in the EU, might take a little longer, but it is free. In America our medicine is not included with our taxes and we must pay extra and it would be very costly to move here with your daughter, especially if she has this problem.
You should post pictures of you and your daughter. It seems that you are trying to use couchsurfing to raise money. However, no one knows if your story is true or if you are simply creating a scam and trying to collect money and have no intention of moving. The purpose of couchsurfing is not to raise money, but to share experiences, share culture, share ones stories and share ones house/apartment with travelers and to be a traveler yourself.
So we are all waiting for you to post pictures so that we can see you and your daughter, so that we know this is a real story and maybe you can get visitors who bring generous gifts.
For you it is best to stay in the EU because medicine is free in the EU, might take a little longer, but it is free. In America our medicine is not included with our taxes and we must pay extra and it would be very costly to move here with your daughter, especially if she has this problem.
Posted December 31st, 2012 - 6:19 am by 
from Coos Bay, United States (Permalink)
from Coos Bay, United States (Permalink)Yes I agree, I work on call as a nurse, but because I work part time and not a regular full time staff, I pay $475 a month for medical insurance, and then have a $5000 deductible I have to pay first before I get to use it. Some people in wheelchairs have jobs, but it depends on their education and training.Many people in the United States, well educated people, are struggling to find work. Some teachers, engineers, and other professionals have been laid off.People here with children with disabilities do get some help if they are low income, but struggle to pay rent and food, etc. It is not enough money to live well, just enough to help them get by.If you are a new immigrant it may be hard to qualify for this kind of help, and hard to get a visa to live here. There are places in Mexico and Florida that probably have swimming with dolphins and I have seen videos of this.I understand it can be a wonderful experience for the child, and uplifting to the spirit, but haven't heard it is a cure. Florida, where this would probably be located in the US, is an expensive place to live, and it probably isn't cheap to arrange to travel and spend time swimming with dolphins. There are places in Hawaii with wild dolphins that come up to swimmers and people in kayaks. I would love to visit there myself, but it is expensive with airfare and places to stay. Renting a house in the US varies greatly in cost depending on where you live. My town, in Oregon, you can get a modest house for $700 a month. The same small house in some of the cities in California, Florida or New York, could cost $2000 a month or more. New York City, it could cost $2000 a month for a small apartment.It is not easy to come here,especially with a child with disabilities and get jobs and a home. Good luck to you.Sorry to be discouraging.People with much determination and talent have come here and made their way, but not easily.
Posted January 10th, 2013 - 12:58 pm by 
from Riga, Latvia (Permalink)
from Riga, Latvia (Permalink)Everywhere is difficult in many countries!
But we can not retreat!
Even if it is very difficult,
But there is hope! I can not retreat!
It's my opinion!
Dolphin therapy and physical help, I read a lot about it, because when a person swims muscles become stronger!
Yes, and raise her spirits, are important, for me and my daughter!
We can believe that the dolphin therapy will help us!
Because another she helping!
But we can not retreat!
Even if it is very difficult,
But there is hope! I can not retreat!
It's my opinion!
Dolphin therapy and physical help, I read a lot about it, because when a person swims muscles become stronger!
Yes, and raise her spirits, are important, for me and my daughter!
We can believe that the dolphin therapy will help us!
Because another she helping!
Posted January 10th, 2013 - 12:08 pm by from Riga, Latvia (Permalink)
from Riga, Latvia (Permalink)I will post pictures today, then I'll add a photo!
My foto and my daughter's!
I understand that the trust, to me, at you, may no be!
You did nothing about me and my daughter do not know!
I can send you a copy by E mail, any document her disability! And my documents that you need to verify the information!
In an extreme case, in the guests can go come to you, that would you have no doubt!
We have only a free visit to the doctor, and gymnastics once a week free!
The rest is need pay, massage which is needed for an extra charge, a lot of paid procedures!
So, nothing not change!
A life can be easier, just to live on $ 350 a month, two women, very hard!
Pension from her 175 Ls, is $ 350!
In Latvia, very difficult to live!
My foto and my daughter's!
I understand that the trust, to me, at you, may no be!
You did nothing about me and my daughter do not know!
I can send you a copy by E mail, any document her disability! And my documents that you need to verify the information!
In an extreme case, in the guests can go come to you, that would you have no doubt!
We have only a free visit to the doctor, and gymnastics once a week free!
The rest is need pay, massage which is needed for an extra charge, a lot of paid procedures!
So, nothing not change!
A life can be easier, just to live on $ 350 a month, two women, very hard!
Pension from her 175 Ls, is $ 350!
In Latvia, very difficult to live!
Posted January 10th, 2013 - 10:22 am by from Riga, Latvia (Permalink)
from Riga, Latvia (Permalink)Cure to the end and may be and can not, but support in the form that we have reached, it is possible!
Before this time, She just lay in bed, nothing she could not doing!
Now she can stand, take two steps, all for herself at home doing, absolutely independent woman in home!
I see a big change in her physical condition!
And I will not stop!
The fact that the eviction with me, I know!
Everything will be fine! I believe in it!
Before this time, She just lay in bed, nothing she could not doing!
Now she can stand, take two steps, all for herself at home doing, absolutely independent woman in home!
I see a big change in her physical condition!
And I will not stop!
The fact that the eviction with me, I know!
Everything will be fine! I believe in it!
Posted January 13th, 2013 - 11:09 pm by from Coos Bay, United States (Permalink)
from Coos Bay, United States (Permalink)I wish the best for you and your daughter Elena, but if swimming with dophins was a cure for many illnesses, many people would be talking about it and millions of people would be swimming with dolphins. Yes swimming is a good therapy, but healing comes from within, and swimming is possible all over the world. You and your daughter have made great progress by your own strength and will. Keep it up, you do not have to move somewhere else for change and progress to happen. You have the power to create the change whereever you are. Best wishes.
Posted February 1st, 2013 - 7:46 pm by from Riga, Latvia (Permalink)
from Riga, Latvia (Permalink)Dolphin therapy is not only swimming
in the pool but also ultra sound that has beneficial effects on human health!
Here's an article about dolphin therapy!
Dolphin therapy
The idea that human interaction with dolphins may be beneficial was first formulated in the 1960s by John Lilly, who studied dolphin-human communication and suggested that dolphins could help humans learn to communicate better with one another. Lilly’s ideas were extended into the 1970s when dolphin researchers began examining the effects that interacting with dolphins appeared to have on children with neurological impairments. In fact the understandable love for dolphins does encourage people to want to get close to them. This desire may stem from the belief that close contact with these special animals can provide, at the very least, a release from day-to-day stresses and boredom and, at the other extreme, some sort of miracle cure for physical and mental illness, and disability.
Dolphin-assisted therapy (DAT) has become an increasingly popular. The therapy typically occurs in marine parks and dolphinariums as part of programs that allow people to swim with dolphins. Children and adult receiving DAT go through focused one-on-one sessions of individualized activities with a therapist (e.g., a speech, occupational, or physical therapist depending on the disability child’s and adult) where interactions with dolphins follow a child’s correct cognitive, physical, or social-emotional response. Proponents claim that DAT can effectively improve language, behavior, cognitive processing, attention, motivation to learn, and certain medical conditions.
Nowadays large numbers of these programs operate in countries throughout the world, including Mexico, the United States, Israel, and Russia. Dolphin therapy has become big business, for example in the US based Dolphin Research Center. From 1989, to the end of 1994, more than 500 children and adults from all over the world took part, with almost 5,000 so called therapy sessions. By the end of 1994, the therapy program was so successful that the waiting list for services had reached seven years! A full time program was needed and to meet this extraordinary demand, Dolphin Human Therapy moved to Dolphins Plus in Key Largo, Florida, while hiring a full time staff of seven and working in five days per week programs. The price per person for this kind of therapies in many of the facilities offering them runs at around 5000 $US for ten days not including food and accommodation.
It is no wonder that facilities such as the hotel Los Delfines become engaged in such kind of activities, as they resolve several of their institutions problems:
It is great for repairing their public image by giving them the opportunity to project themselves as institutions with the intention to help other human beings and work for the benefit of the weakest elements of our society, handicapped children.
It appeals positively to people’s emotions by addressing their need for harmony, their hope for a miraculous cure for their ill children or by giving them the good feeling to provide the best possible start for a newborns life. In order to strengthen this positive emotional connection institutions like hotel Los Delfines do promote the idea of dolphins as peaceful, intelligent and supernaturally wise species that enjoy doing good to humans. A romantic idea that fits all too well with our need for contact with nature, when living in the stressful concrete environment of big cities like Lima.
It diverts people’s attention away from the critical points of keeping dolphins in captivity and builds up a strong defense. What better reason one could have to defend animal captivity than the smiling face of a happy child disability?
Then i add about article dolphins and benefits their ultra sound!
And if believe that dolphin therapy can help, We, I and my daughter believed that will help!
It will definitely help, we believe in it!!
in the pool but also ultra sound that has beneficial effects on human health!
Here's an article about dolphin therapy!
Dolphin therapy
The idea that human interaction with dolphins may be beneficial was first formulated in the 1960s by John Lilly, who studied dolphin-human communication and suggested that dolphins could help humans learn to communicate better with one another. Lilly’s ideas were extended into the 1970s when dolphin researchers began examining the effects that interacting with dolphins appeared to have on children with neurological impairments. In fact the understandable love for dolphins does encourage people to want to get close to them. This desire may stem from the belief that close contact with these special animals can provide, at the very least, a release from day-to-day stresses and boredom and, at the other extreme, some sort of miracle cure for physical and mental illness, and disability.
Dolphin-assisted therapy (DAT) has become an increasingly popular. The therapy typically occurs in marine parks and dolphinariums as part of programs that allow people to swim with dolphins. Children and adult receiving DAT go through focused one-on-one sessions of individualized activities with a therapist (e.g., a speech, occupational, or physical therapist depending on the disability child’s and adult) where interactions with dolphins follow a child’s correct cognitive, physical, or social-emotional response. Proponents claim that DAT can effectively improve language, behavior, cognitive processing, attention, motivation to learn, and certain medical conditions.
Nowadays large numbers of these programs operate in countries throughout the world, including Mexico, the United States, Israel, and Russia. Dolphin therapy has become big business, for example in the US based Dolphin Research Center. From 1989, to the end of 1994, more than 500 children and adults from all over the world took part, with almost 5,000 so called therapy sessions. By the end of 1994, the therapy program was so successful that the waiting list for services had reached seven years! A full time program was needed and to meet this extraordinary demand, Dolphin Human Therapy moved to Dolphins Plus in Key Largo, Florida, while hiring a full time staff of seven and working in five days per week programs. The price per person for this kind of therapies in many of the facilities offering them runs at around 5000 $US for ten days not including food and accommodation.
It is no wonder that facilities such as the hotel Los Delfines become engaged in such kind of activities, as they resolve several of their institutions problems:
It is great for repairing their public image by giving them the opportunity to project themselves as institutions with the intention to help other human beings and work for the benefit of the weakest elements of our society, handicapped children.
It appeals positively to people’s emotions by addressing their need for harmony, their hope for a miraculous cure for their ill children or by giving them the good feeling to provide the best possible start for a newborns life. In order to strengthen this positive emotional connection institutions like hotel Los Delfines do promote the idea of dolphins as peaceful, intelligent and supernaturally wise species that enjoy doing good to humans. A romantic idea that fits all too well with our need for contact with nature, when living in the stressful concrete environment of big cities like Lima.
It diverts people’s attention away from the critical points of keeping dolphins in captivity and builds up a strong defense. What better reason one could have to defend animal captivity than the smiling face of a happy child disability?
Then i add about article dolphins and benefits their ultra sound!
And if believe that dolphin therapy can help, We, I and my daughter believed that will help!
It will definitely help, we believe in it!!
