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@gerry
There is a solution for the glare and heat generated by that
building and the sun. There is a window film available. It can
be applied to the window or is available as roller shades. It
comes in 3 types: A light, medium, and dark. Depending on the
type it cuts the glare and also has insulating properties for both
heat and cold. There is a 4rth kind that is used for privacy. It
looks mirrored on the outside. From the inside you can hardly tell
it is there. You have a completely clear view. It has the added
benefit of keeping furniture and carpeting from fading.
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I've got a Remington Model 1100, (old model, 12 Guage),
@pacman,
Who are you calling old? The first shotgun I ever fired was one of those, (My gawd, I am getting old)
really nice firearm.
As far as 10 gauge, I've only seen one of those, used for high altitude goose blasting and bringing down annoying satellites.
Now we know what happened to sputnik. LOL You would have been hard pressed to start shooting with a better gun than the 1100. The new model doesn't compare. I've got a friend who still wants to take it to turkey shoots. (For those who don't know, the shooters aren't harming any turkeys. LOL) The gun is almost show grade, no rust on the factory blue, no worn spots and no scratches on the wood. It looks better than most new guns. I keep it locked in the safe with my other "keepers".
Start talking about old guns and it brings you old timers out. LOL
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@Shardel ... Now you tell me LOL! I'm moving to a larger place in the same building but on a different side. I have a rather spectacular view from my living room which I'm going to miss but the down side is that my side of the building, on the top floors where my apartment is is right on the downtown helocopter route and, believe me, when you have one of those damned things hovering fifty feel from your window ... you're going to hear it LOL! I can't tell you how tempting it is to just open the window when that happens and take out a good old sling-shot or find a way to heave water ballons at the damned things ... it a good thing I'm not 13 anymore; I'd probably be in jail for being unable to resist!
@FredBun ... I live right on Arch St 1 block s/w of the Logan Circle Swan/Mermaid fountain. The Comcast is only one third of a block wide which is why it looks so thin but I think there is some "tromp d'oeil" thing going on; the fact that its thin makes it look much taller (I suspect, anway ... I'm an artist as you know and I've done the same thing in paintings and drawings.)
Fred ... I can't tell you how often I've wanted to post of pic of that Billy Penn Bronze atop city hall. Have you ever walked toward it from the west or the east? It's obscene! I LITERALLY looks like he's exposing himself and holding his weenie LOL ... and it's bears a remarkable resemblemce to the appendage in question LOL! City folk lore has it that is was done deliberately to make it look like he was peeing on NYC LOL! This might actually be true; they use to do things like that with architecture in those days and Philly was in competition with New York to be the country's #1 financial power at that time. Obviously, we lost that particular competition but, as you know, Philly use to be an extremely wealthy and powerful city since the revolution until the 1930s or so.
Damn, I can't tell you how tempted I've been to post a pic of that huge bronzed statue of Billy Penn atop city hall ... perhaps I should; it just a piece of artwork; the mods could always remove it if considered to distasteful. Maybe it would be o.k. if I put it side by side with one of the rolled Scroll which he's actually holding giving the said obscene view at side angles! I thought I'd post this pic to give you the scope of that statue's actual size (I think Shardel might get a kick out of this two:
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gerry1, LOL, that was good, I dont see why anybody would have a problem posting the pic your talking about, anyway, I know exactly where your at, I know the fountain, as a kid I can't even tell you how many times we jumped in to cool off on hot days, and the library across the street, I know the building is still there but I don't know if it's a library anymore.
As far as Willy, back in the mid 70's (I was a commercial roofer and waterproofer, retired in 05) we had to do some waterproofing on him, on his base anyway, and beleive me lol, his pp is not hanging, but come to think of it as I try to remember way back than, I could imagine how it can look like what you say, I'm still laughing cause your surmise is kinda close so to speak lol, anyway, my God I can go on and on about my Philly escapades, especially center city, even though I partied hardy in my young adult life there, but life there as a kid it was always the place to be.
And what I still miss most really, I'm a huge movie fan, I don't know how long you have been there but back in the 50's and so on Philly had some great movie theaters, we as kids use to collect big discarded soda bottles and turn them in for pennies till we got 50 cents a ticket and another 50 for snacks and for 50 cents it was like almost all you can eat back than.
The theaters were huge, and the screens were giants, and of course we almost always went during daytime on school days off or weekends, in the evening don't forget in those days people were decked out man, men wore suites and the ladies looked like queens, and in those days when you watched a movie you wouldnt here a wisper from anybody, besides laughing or the oh's and ah's, if you talked you were out, not like today, and of course I do prefer being comfortable than decked out in a movie theater, those changes I don't mind, but I wish the nonsense that goes on today in them is when I wish I was back in the old days.
My last regular movie going experiance stopped dead when the wife and I went to see Dances with Wolves, and as you know movies aint 50 cent anymore, you pay big bucks, was a bunch of older teenage chumps talking, screaming, laughing, drinking cursing, everbody was so annoyed, after like a half hour that was it for me, I politly asked if they could stop, I got the old F you, ok, f me, I'm not even gonna go into detail about the riot that started, cops came, and quess who got locked up, moi, and quess who didnt, not one of the nitwits got handcuffed, my wife didnt either thank goodness but when they handcuffed me my wife took a swing at a cop and missed she was so outraged but glad she missed cause we both probably have went, anyway, it wasnt just that particular movie, it was an on going thing, and remember the movie I am not gonna take it anymore, well it kinda happined lol.
I did see two more movies since in theaters, I did see King Kong, the new one, but because of some hearing loss I missed so much dialog, but you know, didnt I sit next to some girl that was yacking away at her cell all movie long, I just took it in stride and said to myself well thats the way things are now, plus of course to old for that anymore anyway, I went by myself to see that one, and so glad the wife didnt, cause I know that girl probably would have got smacked, I did see one more, mainly cause it was subtitled (Apocolypto) again I went by myself, it was a 10am showing and maybe 8 people in the theater at best, it was a great 3 hrs.
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gerry1
Was that pic another of your toys? lol
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@FredBun ... its a damned crime but most of those big ornate theaters are gone and what few remain have been turned into "movieplexes" with five or six soundproof little theaters instead of the one giant one so you still can't see what lies under it all. There is still one of those big beauties and hollywood did the big "Premier" thing with Tom Hanks when the movie "Philadelphia" was released but it closed down right after that. It could well be the last of its kind in Philly and there has been this huge legal battle for years now trying to keep a developer from tearing it down.
Most of those theater were built before the movies, they were "vaudeville" theaters and the acoustics are astonishing because they were built before the invention of the microphone. Some had orchestra pits and pipe organs. Damn shame.
It must have been neat in a way working Billy Penn ... you've got more ba@@# than I do though LOL! (Sometimes we get window washer positions for the skyscrapers but not a whole lot of people want them even though they pay quite well).
Living in center city is still awsome. If you can't find anything to do, there is something seriously wrong with you! There is this wide spread notion that if you live in center city, you must be rich .. damn, I wish that one were true! All things are relative though; if you live in the Badlands, you're considered rich if you have electricity in your apartment or a can of spaghetti-Os in your cupboard!
Do you know, the state actually wanted me to make "home visits" in the Badlands some years ago? Racial tensions are still very high when you're that deep in the ghetto; as a white boy in a suit ... "the man" intruding into people homes; I'd be surprised if I didn't make the return trip home in a box "not for all the damned tea in china" was my response!
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pacman, never thought of that, but I've never done it before, a little help please.
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Notice the little pen and tablet icon to the top right of your post? Click it and it opens the Message window where you can edit the post and save the change.
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Fred - no worries, i just deleted it for you..
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11. October 2007 @ 07:56 |
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LOL! I can see it now ... a 40 ft tall bronzed statue weighing zillion tons in my living room! The head shown there might fit into my apartment if I knock out the walls, get rid of everythins and sleep on the brim of the hat LOL!
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gerry1, oh man, don't even get me started about the badlands, for almost 15 years I spend half my life there, I know a little about you, your pain problems, I always say I dont post much but read everything.
I know people might say oh I cant beleive he is saying this but I really don't care, playing soccer for years, paratropping in the service, two years in vietnam and 30 years roofing destroyed my body, late in my 40's started with hip replacements, shoulder arms hands and knee surgeries really took a toll.
Got on pain meds, had to, no way could have worked without them, and the strongest ones you could get, doc,s would say why dont you re-educate yourself, yeah right and who is gonna pay for my schooling, I sucked in school anyway and who will pay the bills while I do so, so easy for them to say, besides being a union roofer the pay and the bennies were great, and with 3 handicapped kids you dont wanna be without bennies.
Anyway, after pills didnt work anymore I resorted to herion, and thats were the badlands come in, and no I wasnt a scumbag addict, I kept it a secret, never stole, cheated or lied to anyone besides keeping my addiction a secret, nobody besides my wife never knew, my kids were never hungry, my bills were always paid and it took a lot of side jobs to do it, just not being able to afford a better education for my kids is what tears me appart the most.
I never got arrested, never missed a days work and never got into any accidents, I know it might be hard to beleive but I was fortunate, hooping around in the badlands for 15 years was a second job so to speak, and that was a nightmare, as a white guy driving around and walking there how I never got busted or beat up I don't know, I guess somebody was watching over me, being raised around there was the big picture, your street smart before you walk.
And yes being white you might as well walk around with a big red flag there, the cops are not stupid, it was all cat and mouse and luck. I got two kids in colledge the 3rd is to severe to go to school, but they all love daddy and I kiss the bearded guy upstairs for it, things could have been a lot worse I guess.
I got clean 7 years ago and stayed that way ever since, do I have regrets, yes and no, without that crap I would never have worked in construction, that I dont regret, the money I spend in buying it is my regret, it was a no win game, I wish I had a more academic mind I could write a book about the escapades in the badlands, the horrors Ive been thru and seen, but, whatever, its over its a new day. I dont mind sharing it, especially let it be a lesson to the young ones, STAY IN SCHOOL, be a geek, being cool tuff or stupid doesnt pay bills.
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thanks creaky
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pacman, yeah I just noticed that, but how come I only see my posts with the letter and pen, everybody else has a little persons head, oh oh, am I in trouble or something, like my dad use to say when we played checkers after he would corner me, your in the craphouse son lol.
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@Fred ... if your still working and it's in a field that contributes to physical and would like to learn a different skill, it quite "doable" under those conditions. If that is the case, PM me and I can make some calls to the guy with my position in Delaware county ... we frequently work with "professional courtesies" ...especially in an adjacent county where "you scratch my back and I'll scratch your's is a frequent way of doing business!) PM me if this is something that would benefit you.
Your occasionl opinions of Philly and love for firearms now makes a whole lot of sense LOL!
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11. October 2007 @ 08:30 |
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fred, do you want to pm yourself as can only pm others so that is why it is not in your posts.
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@Fred ... LMAO!! Are you sure you're clean LOL!
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Originally posted by FredBun:
gerry1, oh man, don't even get me started about the badlands, for almost 15 years I spend half my life there, I know a little about you, your pain problems, I always say I dont post much but read everything.
I know people might say oh I cant beleive he is saying this but I really don't care, playing soccer for years, paratropping in the service, two years in vietnam and 30 years roofing destroyed my body, late in my 40's started with hip replacements, shoulder arms hands and knee surgeries really took a toll.
Got on pain meds, had to, no way could have worked without them, and the strongest ones you could get, doc,s would say why dont you re-educate yourself, yeah right and who is gonna pay for my schooling, I sucked in school anyway and who will pay the bills while I do so, so easy for them to say, besides being a union roofer the pay and the bennies were great, and with 3 handicapped kids you dont wanna be without bennies.
Anyway, after pills didnt work anymore I resorted to herion, and thats were the badlands come in, and no I wasnt a scumbag addict, I kept it a secret, never stole, cheated or lied to anyone besides keeping my addiction a secret, nobody besides my wife never knew, my kids were never hungry, my bills were always paid and it took a lot of side jobs to do it, just not being able to afford a better education for my kids is what tears me appart the most.
I never got arrested, never missed a days work and never got into any accidents, I know it might be hard to beleive but I was fortunate, hooping around in the badlands for 15 years was a second job so to speak, and that was a nightmare, as a white guy driving around and walking there how I never got busted or beat up I don't know, I guess somebody was watching over me, being raised around there was the big picture, your street smart before you walk.
And yes being white you might as well walk around with a big red flag there, the cops are not stupid, it was all cat and mouse and luck. I got two kids in colledge the 3rd is to severe to go to school, but they all love daddy and I kiss the bearded guy upstairs for it, things could have been a lot worse I guess.
I got clean 7 years ago and stayed that way ever since, do I have regrets, yes and no, without that crap I would never have worked in construction, that I dont regret, the money I spend in buying it is my regret, it was a no win game, I wish I had a more academic mind I could write a book about the escapades in the badlands, the horrors Ive been thru and seen, but, whatever, its over its a new day. I dont mind sharing it, especially let it be a lesson to the young ones, STAY IN SCHOOL, be a geek, being cool tuff or stupid doesnt pay bills.
Very commendable I must say, many people are not strong enough to overcome their addictions and begin anew, rather fall into a never ending spiral of pain and abuse (like my aunt). Respect.
/me runs back into the shadows and continues lurking.
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The others don't have a little pad and pen because you're not allowed to edit someone else's post. There were places in NO before Katrina that black policemen refused to go into. LOL good stories.
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Now you have to post the picture. If it's a public statue it can't be obscene by definition.
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@Garmoon ... indeed I will then, it really is hysterical and cannot have been done by accident; I just don't believe that LOL!
@svtstang and Fredbun... Fred probably would never have had to go through that if he'd had a doctor what knew how to treat chronic pain. It isn't treated the way you'd treat post surgical pain for a week or two after an operation when the pain eventually diminishes but "chronic pain" NEVER stops... a little better or a little worse at times but it just never stops and it never will. Very few doctors know how to treat them and it's the patient that suffers both physically and you can bet, emotionally. I didn't go the heroine route, rather, I did the best I could during the day and drank just short of a quart of vodka every night between 6:30 and 9:00 and did this for years! (I don't even like the taste of the crap; I'd mix a whole 12 oz glass of ice, fill to the brim with vodka, and block my noze and drink three quaters of it waiting for that one huge swallow to take effect before I could take any more). I did this simply to be able to sleep; I'd literally go for days without sleep until I passed out for twenty mins or so. It does nothing during the day (but I did not work construction as I'd have been in traction the moment I put the hard hat on LOL) but I can't begin to describe how aweful it was; even if one in NOT suicidal, which I wasn't, I tell how quite honestly that I prayed every night that I just die in peace and not wake up in the morning. We have a lot of heart disease in my family and I'D PRAY FOR A HEART ATTACK AND DIE LIKE MY BROTHER! How sick is that? ...its sure no way to live and the overwhelming majority of doctors don't know how to treat it so the person suffers something aweful. The worst part is, it's not necessary and both of us went through all that for nothing. It may have taken me fifteen years to find the damned place but one doctor finally referred me to a place that deals with nothing but neurosurgical pain. (I'd been to pain clinics before but most are really bogus operations). I still hurt a lot 24/7 and I always will, but there are ways to help it a lot even if you can't get rid of it, there are ways to make it much more tolerable. I take narcotics on a stady schedule to keep the pain at bay (bey?). And yes, I take stuff that could bring down a moose but that "high" effect goes away and it makes it much easier to function. Am I addicted to narcotics? ...the answer to that one is yes, to a degree. If I forget them when I've gone somewhere and have to go without, I admit that I get jittery; but no buttfly nets needed! No booze needed. So too, I've got meds of various potencies. I've been on this planned approach for twelve years now and it's awsome though I sometime could go back and shoot those doctors who would simply say "Well naturally you're in pain, look at your medical and surgical history ... YOU'RE SUPPOSE TO BE IN PAIN ... and there's nothing we can do about it." Pisser is, it just isn't true.
There is one very big danger that they warn you about all the damned time as well they should; on pain management plans, you're dealing with serious drugs; stay with the plan and you're fine ... abuse the stuff and what will happen is that you become a big time addict without the pills to support it, and abusing it a little further like chewing a time released narcotic will kill you in a heartbeat. There are ways but there are serious boundries which can kill you if you cross them.
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ddp, I pm'd myself, dont know if anything different will happin, but I gave it shot.
gerry1, lol, yes gerry I'm sure, beleive me I don't ever wanna go thru with that again, actually the worse time in my life was when I got clean, it took a month before I could even get out of bed, if anybody tells you that an opiate withdrawl is like having a bad flu, you can tell them to go stick it, I'd rather stick needles in my eye like Nicholson said once in a movie.
If you can imagine a months worth of hardly any sleep, shakes, paranoia, cold and hot sweats, loss of all bodily fuctions like nose running, tearing, thrashing, sneezing, pukeing, craping peeing all at the same time, and thats not once in a while, I'm talking constant for a month, especially the first two weeks, and everybody doesn't understand why most people relapse, it aint no joke, there's only sure cure, don't ever start.
I finally made it because of shear determination and help, and when my body just could'nt take anymore drug use and without it I knew I coud'nt work anymore, I applied for SSD and got it within 3 months, most of friends asked how in the hell did you get approved so fast, they didnt know it was the drugs that kept my body going not myself, when all those doc's examined me they asked how in the hell where you able to go up a latter with your condition, lotta script drugs doc, which of course those really didn't help anymore and was to ashamed to tell the real truth.
But all thats over now, so no gerry I don't work anymore, I get SSD and the little pension from my union, I'm 60 now so it was gonna happin soon anyway, times are hard but I'm happy, I do go regulary to my union hall and try to counsel all the youngins in my union, you guys would not beleive how many of them in the construction trade are hooked or abusing, listening from a drug vet like myself they do tend to listen more, if I can convince one than my little hobby is successful. I can never down anybody using because of pain, I can undesrstand cause I went thru it, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do, but to get high, thats a no no.
Anyway gerry, thank you so much for your offer, I appreciate it big time, but of course I'm not working anymore, I do miss the pay and the bennies but could'nt even if I wanted to. I do keep myself busy as often as I can, a little yard work, time with the kids, and yes the computer, thats what keeps me sane.
And my goal with whatever I have left, is to try and master it, and when I say master I don't mean geek stuff, I use baseball terms to explain, if I can reach 2nd base I'll be thrilled, I remember entering the stadium, talk about bieng computer stupid, than was stuck in the dugout for the longest time, and maybe, just maybe I think I reached first base, getting to third, forget it, and reaching the plate, I'm not fooling myself, thats geek MIT stuff lol, second is my goal, I'll be happy. And with that goal, what I really want to do is build my own computer someday, and I will if it kills me.
Right now I nned to get most basic stuff, hell I still can't even figure out how to post a picture on these threads, even had help from guys like greensman and pacman pm,ing me god bless them but I still could'nt figure it out and don't want to keep asking and turn out to be a pain in the ass, but I'll get it sooner or later.
My oldest boy got accepted to RIT (Rochester Institute of Technolgy), its an amazing place, oh and almost forgot, anybody remember that kid that cracked the I Phone thingamajeg, hell he made the national news, he's in the same dorm as my kid, I told my Billy to bring him home one day and I'll kidnapp him lol, I'm not a reading instruction kinda guy, I'll read all day and get no where, show me once and I got it, its frustrating, I can build you a house with my eyes closed but can't crack this little box called the PC.
Anyway my boy e-mailed me and said he built his first computer in school, with school instructers there of course, but still was I proud, said to him good now get your ass home and show me lol, he said figuring out where all the wires go was pretty tuff, but the hardest was figuring out the binery, I said what, he said Dad its all those I's and O's or 1 and zero's whatever the hell all that means, told him don't even try to explain that to me. He's taking up hardware and software but really wants to get into corperate network security, I said good for you Billy, you got enough spammers and hackers out there that will keep you busy for a long time.
Oh gerry I think you got me confused with somebody else about me liking weapons, thier cool if thats your thing, being in the service and all the years of hunting I've kinda had enough, Ive sold all my arms a long time ago, just kept a nine in the house for the old protection excuse, other than that, the computer is my thing.
Wow I typed enough, my hands are shaking, good chating with you, will definatly catch you later.
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gerry I just read your post, beleive me my friend, your not telling me anything I already don't know or havent been thru, the doctors, man what a joke, I dont have time now to go there, but I will tell you about them later, and drug counselors, if one tried to talk to me that wasn't an x addict I would tell him to get out my face, reading books teaches you nothing, all thier stupid theories I would laugh in thier face, I just say give me somebody thats been in the trenches than we'll have a sit down.
And yes gerry, you do what you gotta do to keep pain free and sane, stay on schedual, its when people go off it is when the shit hits the fan, and don't ever let anybody downgrade you cause of your use, nobody understands 24/7 pain unless they have been there. More than half of my fellow construction workers my age are taking something, they just want to function and work, and most that stay on schedual do fine. OK gotta go.
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@Fred
If you want to learn to post a picture, type insert picture into post
in the search thread or look in digital photography forum. I just
learned how to do that. Ihoe did a fantastic step by step guide for
me.
It's great that you are putting your experiences to positive use.
People don't always understand when they haven't walked in your
shoes. Pain 24/7 is one of the worst things a person can deal with.
Glad things are going well for you now.
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@Fred...without intention, you've brought back the worst memories of my life about which I can't bear to think; suffice it to only say this in the unlikely chance that a tid-bit can be learnt: my parents sued the government over SSD (I wasn't yet able). I remember it like it were yesterday: I was wheeled into a courtroom. I had a halo still screwed to my head, I had just had the third in a series of neurosurgical procedures on the neck because I was paralyzed on the left but a "possibility" existed. My right leg sort of worked with a locking brace ... in short, only my right arm worked... an ego busting position for a kid fresh out of the marine corps. There was all sorts of back and forth talk with lawyers, the judge etc but I couldn't see one of them because my head was screwed into position; I could only move my eyes. To make a long story short, a baby lawyer appointed by the new administration said something like this to the judge... "Your honor, there is no reason why this young man must be made a burden to the taxpayers. Even with the use of his one arm, there is no reason why he couldn't work jobs like, oh, collecting tickets for amusement park rides". Worse than the accident, surgery or anything else to follow, the pain of that one moment is one that still haunts me twenty five years later. If I'd had a weapon on my lap, I'd have blown my brains out on the spot and came too close for comfort a number or times in the months that followed. To this day, I hope that young Reagan snot befell a fate identical to mine or worse. Sadly vindictive, I know, but true. So, if only in the worst imaginable of nightmares, I wish everyone could experience the humiliation of such a moment before allowing such total disregard to cause someone hurt beyond words.
"Remember, my brothers, that all the joys or dejections of your life will always be direcly preportioned to the good or evil which issues from within." "Confessions of St. Augustine of Hippo", 390 AD
Enough on that subject.
I won the SSD retroactively and the whole thing couldn't have lasted ten minutes but seemed a lifetime. If nothing else, the judge chewed out the lawyer for SSD something aweful. The SSD was retroactive which meant nothing because the lawyers took damned near every penny. To make matters worse, the govermnet, as you'll recall, may deign you SDS eligible (worthy?), but won't help one bit with your healthcare for two years. I guess they hope you'll die before that time. I won't even begin to tell you what three quater of a million dollars of health care costs can do to your family ... or to the one who brought about the their misery.
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Shardel
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11. October 2007 @ 15:03 |
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People with disabilities experience humiliation every time they
turn around. People that have not had such set backs in their lives
think we are all just whining. The actual truth is most of the
the disabled are more valiant than anyone could imagine.
It has been said that the good lord never gives you more than you
can handle. It has also been said handle it one day at a time. I
have seen the time when I had to handle it 5 minutes at a time just
to survive.
This world could use a good dose of compassion.
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Shardel
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11. October 2007 @ 15:06 |
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Sorry-accidentally hit button twice.
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