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Old 02-17-2005, 11:35 AM
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Hi guys

I’m a newbie to this forum. I’m disabled and on social security disability. (Funny name, they aren’t very social or offer much security) I don’t have any tails about getting approved. From the day they found my advanced stage 4 cancer to the operating room for my first of 12 surgeries and months of morphine was only 3 days. All those battles were fought by my then new redheaded girlfriend now my wife. I wouldn’t be alive without her. I did have a bad moment after I gave her power of attorney, when she told me she liquidated every cent I had and it was gone. Good thing too. My health insurance bailed out after the first operation. All totaled, surgeries, chemo and radiation, hospital stays, I even died on them once, it cost close to a million they figure. Medicare/Medicaid would not touch me if I had any assets what so ever.

I made it and now it’s time go on with my life and to give back. I’m opening a hunting lodge. I’m trying to make it available for the disabled. I would like some input from you guys what I might need to set it up. My cancer was of the lymph nodes under my jaw. It traveled to the base of my tongue and down my throat and around my neck. I lost my tongue and they rebuilt my neck from other parts of me. I’m very active now and I got to keep my vocal cords but I can’t work in a regular workplace because I can’t talk well, and because of the need to eat often by stomach tube and I can’t sleep all night without choking so I have to take a hour here and a hour there. Oddly enough I am an excellent cook and even better baker. A skill I greatly developed after my cancer. But I know now that I cannot begin to imagine what someone else's disablity is like.

The lodge is on 2 floors but I have ground level entrances on both floors. Sleeping and eating on the top floor and TV room, card room and bar on the bottom. I don’t think I can afford to get a pool table this season, money is still very tight. My big house was once a restaurant with a commercial kitchen, a social club and once was even a private club for couples looking for adventure (wink, wink, nudge, nudge). So most of the things the lodge needs are here.

So let me know what you would like to see in a lodge, besides the women looking for adventure. You can just email me if you want.
[email protected]

I’m not selling anything or even promoting the lodge. It’s not even open yet. This is nothing more than a desire to do it right.
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Old 02-17-2005, 06:00 PM
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Hey there SKUNKMAN , welcome abord. I'll have to think of some ideas you may be able to use in your new adventure. I wish you the best of luck and i'm sure the rest of my friends here on the forum will be more than happy to help.
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Old 02-17-2005, 09:23 PM
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The most important thing is the price you charge.the people that are here cant afford to spend much money because they to are on SS.and dont have a lot of extra cash to work. lots of places say we cater to the handicaped but with no break on their fees. sdo in turn we can not affod to hunt those kind of places.bigkentk
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Old 02-18-2005, 12:53 AM
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Hi Skunkman,
Welcome to the forum. BigkentK has it right. Unless it's local, most of us won't be able to travel, because of funds or health. You won't get rich or be able to break even if you cater to disabled people. If you really want to just discount disabled people.
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Old 02-18-2005, 08:44 AM
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Hay skunkman, welcome. What state do you live in?
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Old 02-18-2005, 11:01 AM
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Hey Skunkman Welcome you are now officially part of the family! I think what you are doing is very admirable and a wonderful thing! I dont know where your at but if there is anything I can do just let me know Iwill do all I can. If you get a web site up about your place please let me know and I will place a link to it from my msn group. My group is dedicated to the disabled and Handicapped. Its not much yet I just got started but it is growing so if any of you are interested in joining just apply and let me know your from here. I had to put a restricted membership as of all the spammers and sexual content going on at msn groups. It is http://groups.msn.com/thedisabledlife and if any one has a link they want added just let me know. Thanks Jimmy
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Old 02-18-2005, 08:46 PM
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I know what you mean about being broke. I will try to get "She Whom Must Be Obeyed" to go for it. She has everything broken down to the penny. I tried to slip a couple of things into the "Must Have List" and we went around and around for hours. She was right. I just wanted build a big smokehouse right away because I thought it might be fun. She is business side and I am all the rest. I had a successful business before my cancer. I made a lot of money but I did it because I was having so much fun. The money just came in. I was a media specialist, Photography, Television, Graphic arts, Studio and concert soundman and anything "artistic" that a client wanted. I've been from the Arctic Ocean to Argentina, from the Rockies to Russia filming hunters and fishermen. Oh my, the things I've seen. I been in a lot of hunting lodges. I know I can do better.

The first year is going to be the hardest in judging income vs expenses. We very confident we can give a hunter a very good stay for the money. First of all there isn't anyplace to hang out with your buddies after a hunt here. No bars or clubs. The only 2 motels are always full even out of deer season. My wife's parents came to visit us when we first moved here and they want to stay in one of the 2 motels and they were both booked. We want to do this without any money from outside sources. We don't want to owe anyone else if we can help it.

Oh The lodge will be in Dover Tennessee, 2 miles from the gates of Land Between The Lakes. A deer hunting wonderland. They are a hazzard when you are driving around. You see more deer than any other animal dead beside the road. I take it that fishing is really big here too. We are at the narrowest point between the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. (Kentucky lake and Lake Barkley) Don't try to shoot the buffalos. I heard a guy got liquiored up and tried a couple of seasons ago and got stomped into paste. A helicopter had to take him out of here. The locals are still laughing about it. This is a odd place. I have been in very few places that was this wild so close to civilization. My wife is even cautious about going out at night after seeing what she swears was a wolf by the house when she drove up one night. We do have Red Wolves here. I can hear them at night sometimes. Those are the nights that I have to drag the dog outside. My wife had a small bookstore in the house and I put in a motion sensor to let her know that someone is pulling in and we finally had to turn it off because the deer.

I am working on a website now. I'm looking for deer photos that I can use without getting my ass sued. That's how I found this site, looking for good Deer photos. My deer shots are on videotape in a format you need a production studio view them. Got to go. Hang in there guys.
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Old 02-19-2005, 08:48 AM
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Hey skunkman
do a search on Google for free photos and graphics, I have found many on there. Just a thought and good luck in your endeavors, keep us posted, Jimmy
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Old 03-01-2005, 10:56 AM
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Hey skunkman welcome aboard your idea sounds great I'm not disabled but my son is and I have been taking him deer hunting some he can't hold a rifle or a shotgun (one hand doesn't work so good) but I made him a holder to support his crossbow and it works great. post more info on cost ant stuff it may be just the type of father son trip for him. Good Luck
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Old 03-19-2005, 06:55 AM
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hey skunkman, welcome to the site..im new here also(my first post or reply)...i'm a c3-c7 incompleted walking quadripligic....(broken neck...)...i live over at paris on 69a south going to big sandy...were almost neighbors... maybe i'll get over that way and we can do some hunting and fishing together... im a member of the disabled hunters of north america and the arkabutla phycally chalenged hunters in mississippi.... haller back and we'll meet up ...
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