To the unsigned noter in the previous entry
who wrote
“how can you collect disability if you have a photography business????”
Number one – I am not collecting disability. I am trying to get disability.
Number two – It is not a business. I don’t have a business license. Nor do I have an occupational licensee. This is my HOBBY. My job is stay at home mom.
I have not earned a profit off of this – and so far I have done less than one shoot a month. IN FACT I have not done a shoot since before CHRISTMAS. Mostly due to my health.
I work around when I feel good. I spend most of my day taking care of my daughter (not lifting her if I can help it – she walks as much as possible and she climbs into her high chair by herself) and I nap when she naps. I rest on the futon in the play room so I can be near her if she needs me. I take pictures when I can.
To me my photography is an art. Would you tell a painter or pianist who has heart problems that they cannot paint or play the piano anymore?
Do you suffer from Fibromyalgia, Migraines, Occipital Neuralgia, and a torn disk in your back and a bulging disk in your neck, the Atlas bone (very top bone in the spine) touching the skull and pinching all the nerves there because you have no curve in your back or neck because your muscles are in constant spasm, does your feet burn like you have been standing barefoot in the snow for a few minutes and came back into a warm room and have that coupled along with having complete numbness in your face and left arm? DO you know what it feels like to have a Migraine for 5 days this week with nausea and electrical shock feelings that go up your head and down your spine into your legs every time you moved your eyes?
I would say you answered no to all those questions… but you just saw a glimpse into my life. Try waling in my shoes for a few days….
Do I think I deserve to receive disability. Hell yes. There is NO job in Hades who will hire me with the health problems I have now. Who will let me take a two hour nap in the middle of the day – what employer will let me miss over 5 days a month of work???
The wedding I have scheduled for this month – the bride knows of my health conditions and knows I will need to rest often and I will take the best damn pictures I can.
/end rant
All items © 2005 CAMElias/Dakk O’ta unless otherwise noted.
The anonymous noter can go to hell. Anonymous flamers are bullies, that and nothing more.
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And THAT my dear is why I don’t allow unsigned notes on my diary. If you want to comment on my life – I deserve to know who you are!! Like the Native Americans say: Great Spirit, grant that I not judge my brother until I have walked a mile in his moccasins.
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Migraines are horrible horrible things, I have them. But when I read what you are going through I am reminded so much of my Mom and what she went through growing up. Only she was always drugged and in pain so I got to grow up fast. It sucked. lol I’m sure not as bad as always being in pain though. *hugs*!
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Mean people suck period, and those who hide behind unsigned notes are true blue cowards. You need not have even dignified such cowardess with a response . . . those of us who know you, KNOW what’s important – and know the facts. We Love ya Woman!
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That noter is a coward…and you don’t have to justify anything to him/her. {{hugs}}
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There are a lot of stupid people in the world hon. I’m sure whoever wrote you that note is a very small minded bitter individual who obviously doesn’t read you and/or know the things you go through in this life. I’m sorry someone has all the class of an unflushed toilet to get you all flustered. Just ignore them. I can relate to your migraines and back problems so well.
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Ignore them. They obviously have no idea what they’re talking about. How do you get your Sloganizer to show up on each entry?
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Anyone who won’t sign their name is just trying to stir crap up.
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That noter is an idiot. There aren’t many places here in Cleveland that will hire me either with my health problems. I am still fighting disability after 6 years *sigh*
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Since I *can* say yes to quite a few of those questions, and since I’m just beginning my fight with disability folks, but I haven’t given up my volunteer position with AFS but I haven’t worked in six months, I can relate. (Though instead of those electrical shocks with my migraines, I have to throw up). Ignore the noter, YOU know your life. *hugs*
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Screw you anonymous! I’ve been Dakk’s friend since we were pregnant with our kids (maybe even a little before) and you can go to hell. *HUGS* Love you, Dakk. <3
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Up THEIRS! They do not know you or your situation. Give’em hell Dakk! You rock girl! I love ya.
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People who dont sign there notes are dorks,ROCK ON and take all the pictures you want!!!
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me to get my life together, especially for my daughters sake She lost her mother to cancer before she was 6months old and I needed to be there for her not the pity party that you have here these losers probably do you more harm than good As for not posting my name.. simply because.. you dont know me!! Does it make a difference knowing my name is Richard Lew oh.. that clears things up its Lew
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WOW, All I asked was, how do you expect to collect disability when you have your own business the defensive stance indicates an unethical mind-set. And since you turned my little question into a hate posting I will have to become truthfully direct. I started reading your diary due to us have some of the same ailments. And I do collect disability (less now due to me starting my own business)
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but what I do collect I give to charity because my business is doing so well and I feel like someone else can probably use it more than I.. After my accident ( I was thrown from a car I was hanging out of trying to stop a child predator from taking his next victim. I saw this man stop his car, throw a boy in the back seat and take off Me being a father, my first instinct was to jump thru
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and everyone else has alias morons.. what kills me more than illegal immigrants is idiot Americans.. at least the Mexicans work hard, even though they dont know English..Ive leaned how to control my migraines and taken myself off all medications.. No more pain, I exercise and do hydrotherapy for my back (did you know you can deduct a Spa as a medical expense on your taxes???)
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the window and stop the car As Im hanging out of the car, trying to get him to stop, he just keeps pressing the accelerator I finally had to resort to gouging out his eye as we went through an intersection We hit a car, breaking my back and causing head injury today I walk with a cane and have a titanium plate in my head this is causing my migraines.. The thing is I had people encouraging me
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Im down to maybe 4 or 5 migraines a year and might have to take an Excedrin migraine of I dont catch it in time but most of the time if I feel it coming, I can control it either by a relaxation exercise or diet.Before I started my own business, I worked for a government agency in the non profit crime department.
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It was my job to find people who were doing business as a non profit and collecting the donations but I also did some work in profile.. and I think I have a pretty good idea on you which comes pretty easy with you spilling the crap you dish out
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Im sure your credit is shot probably a bankruptcy or two.. looking to seek disability to help ends meet without having to get a real job what credit cards you do have are maxed out and probably paying 20 30 % interest Lazy comes to mind. Always having an excuse on why you are where you are at its never you fault overweight but you already told us that but thats not your fault either
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As for your photography business and just incase you dont know If you collect an earning (payment) in exchange for a services, then its a business.. it doesnt matter if it makes a profit, YOU DO HAVE TO PAY TAXES! I do think you said you put out Business Cards not Hobby Cards
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2) What you dont know is that if you are doing this Hobby and someone gets hurt, then they can sue your personal assets No they cant take your house, but they can put a judgment on it plus take whatever other assets you have (but since you probably filed bankruptcy then you probably dont have any assets!!!)
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3) Begging for donations on your diary for camera money and equipment is just plain embarrassing!! Your family not supporting you and giving you money is probably a lessoned learned long ago..
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4) the D70 is not going to help and was just a waste of money!!! photography is not about what camera you use.. its about composition, The thing is, Most good portrait photographers (where the constant cash flow is) are happy people they enjoy life and enjoy capturing life All you do is complain and bitch!!!
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5)And last, What were you thinking on the Maternity spread???? A fairy costume ??? Please that was just plain dreadful I havent seen anything so awful since well..i havent seen anything that was so wrong
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Since Im not part of your pity party, let me give you some HELPFUL advise get off our ass and exercise change your diet and change your attitude I dont remember you crying about your physical ailments reading about BIKE Week.(more money spent) nor when you were dancing at your husbands work party. Quit looking for a miracle drug that is going to fix everything.
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Exercise and diet will fix most of your problems. And stop looking for a free ride… Help your husband… that boy just looks beat down.. Richard…(not an alias Galaga!!!)
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just ignore them, we love you Dak xxx
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*huge hugs* You tell ’em!
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Holy crap ^ He must be one miserable person to go on and on and on like that. And to think he is raising that poor child on his own scares me…Let’s home he teaches him or her a little more tact then what he has shown he has. Go take another OTC migraine pill and get into your spa. :0P
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^Eh, home =’s home. I’m just a tired Mom of 3. LOL
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Pft, had to come back here and read his notes: he sounds like he’s making the whole thing up. Yah, he’s super man alright. Total fictional fabrication, in my opinion. He’s too chicken to leave you his diary’s name.
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Ignore the miserable SOB sweety… (huggles)
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ijust read this noter…and his note on here…he is crazy…please block him…
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I get migraines too…much less frequently than years ago. And they DO SUCK!!! I had a friend a few years ago who was on disability and they kept trying to take it away from her. She had some of the same problems you do and it was a constant battle for her to be able to KEEP her disability. I can’t believe they’re giving you such crap about even GETTING it.
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It takes a real low life who enjoys attacking a female. I guess he can’t face “guys” so he comes online to attack people he knows nothing about. WOW! You’d think with all the energy he put into insulting you he could have gone and found himself a life instead of playing kiddie games on a diary site.
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He’s probably none of the things he said he was, and he doesn’t know you, and who the hell cares what he thinks anyway?
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Heh, and isn’t it funny he chose a name that literally thousands of people have? Why, perhaps next time he could leave a state? OR, perhaps since he knows so much about photography, he is Richard Lew from Floral Park New York? Hm..and I wonder if that very dramatic accident, not to mention the background that his wife died of cancer not long before…well that should have made the papers…
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