I don’t know those individuals, but the details don’t track with what I’ve experienced professionally as a physical therapist. Patient advocacy groups and charities are private organizations that don’t generally have income requirements or limits. Personally I’ve attended many fundraiser bull roasts, bingo nights, quarter auctions held by patient advocacy groups to raise funds for service animals, my own church donated funds for several parishioners who needed service animals. I’ve never heard of an income requirement or an income limit to owning a service dog for any diagnosis, I can’t see why a syncope diagnosis would come with an income requirement. I still suggest the op check with their provider before attempting to self-train a service dog.

Can you imagine a person with low vision being told they must train their own guide dog, or a person who experiences seizures being told to teach a dog to alert to seizures? The scenario you’re describing is implausible and discredits the hard work service animal trainers and patient advocacy groups do. That seems more a vanity project than reality.

I strongly encourage the OP to discuss the support of a service dog with their medical provider before giving money to any organization that claims to show them how to train their own dog to be a service animal for a fee. There is no cost to that conversation and it can’t hurt.

I enjoy reading, cinema, cooking and baking, hiking/being outdoors (when it isn’t freezing), indoor gardening, home decorating. I’m also a coffee and tea lover and an animal lover. I have one cat of my own. I love doing arts and craft type activities too!

I've never understood why "gentrification" was ever seen as an even remotely bad thing...

"Oh no an overall increase in wealth, whatever will I do!?!"

Wow, I never knew that. Thank you!

I'm convinced that like at least 30% of the people who vote in this city just tick "d" without even knowing the names of any of the candidates.

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Do you ride bikes?

What kinds of interests do you have? That would help point you and recommendations in a direction 😊

No, not affiliated to Merritt. MD athlete Club

A lot of people living in the city would have a much better quality of life living somewhere else. Hence the decline in population in poor neighborhoods. It's unfortunate, but part of the cycle many cities experience.

Yes. I think Baltimore faired better than most cities during to the pandemic. People who wanted city living, but at less cost, moved to Baltimore.

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Y is great! Pool access all year round is amazing when you have kids. Only problem is they close ay 9pm during the week and at 5pm on the weekends. If you need later hours, you may need planet fitness or a gym like that.

Happy Cake Day!!

Doesn't MAC stand for Merritt Athletic Club?

And, really, I'd love to not depend on my car at all. It isn't the city's responsibility to pander to my boomer drive-everywhere instincts. Give me something more convenient and I'll graciously use that.

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The neighborhoods that produce the people doing the murders have exactly the opposite.

Nothing installed yet. Just painted lines.

I've heard similar stories. Hopefully it'll get better once people are more familiar with the set up but I'm not holding my breath.

You can report parked cars in bike lanes via the 311 app. https://www.bikemore.net/news/how-to-report-vehicles-parked-in-bicycle-paths-and-lanes-in-baltimore

Cops escalate every situation ?? You need a reality check.

The funny thing is that Central Ave is never congested; at least from my experience navigating through Harbor East at rush hour.

I'm not sure what it is now, but I believe the plan is for flexposts eventually.

Use the MAC