Hayliegh’s World

“I’m tired of doing the time for someone else’s crime”

 Denied My “Civil Rights” under the ADA

Two reasons why I am not able to find legal help is:

I don’t look disabled: again having hidden disabilities / invisible disabilities comes to haunt me again 1. Because I don’t look disabled  &  2. The fact that I have gone after a company for denying me my “civil rights” under the ADA years past. It isn’t fair I did not commit a crime. I am tired and angry that this is happening and I still have no rights.

It is a sin that people w/ invisible disabilities / hidden disabilities cannot find legal help because we don’t look disabled enough for a trial thus a jury. Isn’t that discrimination too? The case isn’t whether I am disable the case would be that “I was denied my civil rights under the ADA and UNRUH Act to have my service dog. I live in disabled housing because I am disabled w/ multiple disabling health issues such as, Fibromyalgia, CFID’s/ME, IBS, and the list goes on. This January I will have a total of seven doctor appointments just this month most people don’t go except once or twice a year.

I am asked by attorney’s am I in a “wheelchair” and when I say no that about ends it because again “I DON”T LOOK DISABLED.”  This also raises the question that wheelchair people are more believable then me and then I am discriminated against again.

Is it fair that I get denied the legal help that I deserve by law. Check: California civil code 52 and ADA and Unruh civil rights act 54 and 55.2

What price have you put on your “CIVIL RIGHTS!”

On January, 7, 2012

My friend and I walked into a restaurant (Old Venice) and seated ourselves at the bar on the stools.  I shared w/ the bartender that I had service dog w/ me and showed him my dogs vest because the buckle had broken. The bartender then left and returned to  the patron side of the to talk to us. He then said we have to leave because of my service dog. He also shared that the owners did not allow service dogs in their restaurant.

I then repeated to the bartender “oh you don’t understand this is my service dog and legally we are allowed by law to be here.” I shared that we had been h before. He got frustrated and a bit heated, and was a matter of fact about the rules and service dogs. He said he had spoken to the owners and service dogs were not allowed in the restaurant. The bartender informed us that a customer came in w/ a little dog claiming it was her service dog and she was asked to leave. .

I asked the bartend his name “Justin” and the time 6:05pm We left and went to my friend’s apartment to call the police. Officer Stadler #3980 and Lopez showed up took the info and went to the restaurant to share w/ Justin abut service dogs then returned to my friend’s apartment and shared that Justin the bartender did say “the owners don’t allow service dogs.

It has been a hard couple of days and I am hoping to be coming out of the insanity I was feeling about the discrimination and my service dog. I am bummed out. I have felt sick and depressed about this.

I now fear being rejected by other attorneys because I don’t look disabled.

* The ADA laws

* Hayliegh’s tags and licensing copied.

* I have a witness

* There was an police officer involved and witnessed the violation  

   under ADA laws. 

Witnesses statement

To whom it may concern:

This is my statement of the event that took place at 6:05 p.m. on Saturday, January 7^th, 2012.

Kimberly Ryan Harms, her service dog Hailey and myself Deanne Coleman – A restaurant in San Diego.

We walked into the restaurant and seated ourselves at the bar on the stools.  Kimberly also motioned to and mentioned her service dog and showed the man the vest upon walking into the building.  The bartender then left for a few minutes towards the back.  When the bar tender returned he walked over to where we were seated and proceeded to state strongly that we would have to leave since service dogs were not allowed in the establishment per management / owner requirements.

Kimberly then said oh you don’t understand this is my service dog and legally we are allowed by law to be served here.  She said we have been served here before as well.  She pulled the vest out again to show the bartender.  He then more aggressively stated that no, it does not matter we are not allowed to be served here with the service dog.

He said he had just called the owners on the phone who again had told him dogs were not allowed in the restaurant even if it’s a service dog.  The bar tender said last week they had someone else in here with a dog and they were requested to leave as well.  He said it’s not himself telling her no, but the owners rules and request.

Kimberly then asked him what time it was and asked for his name.  He said it’s 6:05 p.m. and my name is Justin.  We then left and went back to her friend’s home to call the Police.  The policeman came out to the home and took Kimberly’s statement and stated also that is discrimination for customers with service dogs to not be allowed in or be served at a restaurant.

• San Diego police officer Stadler and Lopez involved. The bartender told the police officer that I was not allowed w/ my service dog due to owners policy.

I called the restaurant to make a complaint on January 20, 2012 @ 5:35pm and spoke to manager Forrest to talk about my discomfort and being upset about what happened about the night in question. He kind of wanted to brush me off and then said the owners would call me and they never did.

Hayliegh’ sWorld

We are home.

After a week of dog sitting it is nice to come home.   I am grateful that Jo and Jim are in my life.  I met them at a gym where I used to work out.  After getting to know then they asked me if I would house and dog sit.  We said ”yes” as we have had many house and dog/cat sitting jobs over the  years.  Helping people feel comfortable about leaving town is a gift It means  they have to trust someone someone like me.  And when they trust me to watch over their home and furry family members (animals), it feels good.

 

Meet the girls Daisy is the black and white and Cindy is the red and white.

 

The two dogs we watch are Cindy and Daisy they are the cuties and sweetest dogs. They see me as the dog walker, so what does that mean?  It means that they know everything and nothing can evade them. For instance when I wake the next am that I am there  and I don’t take them out for a walk,  Cindy will look at me with her head hanging low and her eyes rolled up in the air while she is looking at me like “where is our walk.”  I say “okay girls, who wants a walk” and the girls go crazily happy.

 

When Hayliegh starts barking it is that time of day after dinner the dinner hour it is the beginning of ”wessert time” and the girls nkow what she is saying.  Cindy starts to bark and Daisy comes running down the hall because she knows “I am getting something good!”

We also water the flowers. 

It is nice to be trusted trust is a powerful word

Trust: 1: reliance on another  2: assured hope. 4: properly help or managed in behalf of another …..something entrusted. The list goes on.

Trust is a gift and the gift isn’t meant to be broken.  It doesn’t mean perfection, but it does mean I am trustworthy kind of like our good name. I hold it in great esteem.

Welcome home my friends

Hayliegh sends a WOOF over to the girls.

Hayliegh’s World

What a day “Jori makes!”

Have you ever had a friend who you could laugh and cry with all in one minute? Well that is Jori, she is a sweet soul and when you get her under your skin she is there to stay.  She is a wonderful artist and graphic designer and an info girl as she loves to study architecture, composition and the finer details of what life has to offer. She and her hubby live in an old bungalow/craftsman home.

Hayliegh and I decided since we are feeling better that we needed to make up for lost time by spending time w/ her.  We arrived while Jori and her hubby were eating lunch some delicious soft-shelled tacos, Jori was too polite and shared her plate w/me.  I couldn’t refuse they were yummy!

We walked for an hour and a half through the neighborhoods of  North Park, South park through parts of Balboa canyon, up hills and adoring all the charming craftsman,  bungalow and Spanish homes. We left w/ a bag of grapefruits and an apple off her trees.

under an umbrella

Recently I had an appointment w/ a health professional she came out to interview me.  We will call her X .  X stayed for an hour and a half asking me all kinds of questions about my health condition, my past and basically my history the ups and the downs.  I shared w/ her that I think my doctors hands are tied because the insurance company doesn’t want to spend the money on me due to my CFID and Fibromyalgia.  X said that I call the doctors a lot because of different health complaints. She said I am under what its called ”under an umbrella” that means since I have CFID and the body attacks itself that the doctors are to treat my symptoms. Big QUESTION when do I come out from under the UMBRELLA?

A recent example I kept having some chest discomfort and I was repeatedly put on inhalers that made me feel worse this went on for yrs until the doctors finally sent me to the GI doctor.  The GI doctor found a health condition that I am being treated for, so in the mean time I had to suffer.

I am having repeated acute stabbing pain in my appendix area and my stomach swells so big that it puts pressure on my me because my stomach is flat.  I cannot move, sit, walk or lie down the pain is horrendous.

When I go to the hospital the doctor thinks I may have a ruptured appendix.  I am put on Moraphine and a Cat Scan is taken and nothing is there.  This is starting to become more frequent and at times will act up a few times a week.  I keep being told to take Donnatol for IBS and I still had a flair.  I am tired of hospitals and ambulance co pays they all add up.  because I am “under an umbrella” I am not being sent to a GI doctor. Could it be from the CFID or is there something happening to me that warrants the care of a specialist?

Aren’t we all flowers under an UMBRELLA

Hayliegh’s World

Acknowledging the truth in-order to get past it.

Today we hung to a “What can we do”.  This seems to be hard one for me as this CFID can be mind altering at best. No one would know that Monday I was in excruciating pain in my stomach mimicking an appendicitis attack and then spent the next three days completely house bound due to severe exhaustion known as CFID. I am struggling to except my limitation even after all these yrs. I seem to get a taste of what used to feel good and then have to face surrender once again.  I recently started to bike again I can only do 8 miles these days quite humbling at best. Occasionally it is a couple times a week and then three weeks when I am not able to even get close to my bike.  Truthfully it makes me sad. It is okay to acknowledge the truth it is the only way through.

The star of the day Annette and Henry below

Here is what happened as we were cruising around the lake we met a kind woman named Annette she weighed heavy on my mind because here she was using a walker walking w/ her dog.  I said to myself  ”I have to share w/ her how much I admired her for being out walking/moving. It reminded me of many people I know who are on walkers and don’t move at all.  I thought “Go girl!”  Hayliegh and I had to stop to meet her and her lovely friend Henry.  He was a charming and sweet dog Hayliegh really liked him.  Could you see why? Annette  is having to deal w/ health issue like Fibromyalgia and nerve damage.  She also worked her whole life and is dealing w/ a disabling disease  after working her whole life.  I admire the fact that she is going to school to even though she is in lots of pain.

Oh sweet Henry!

In sharing this it isn’t to say I should be lucky because I could get on a bike today and she isn’t.  There are many days I need a walker and wish I had one to use.  We can not compare an-others pain to someone else. Everyone’s pain is there own experience not to be minimized by anyone.  If someone stubs their toe and that is the worst they ever felt is that to be compared and minimsed because soemone has something worse?

A few photos of Hayliegh one thing she loves to do is dip her face into her treat bag.

peaking out the back of her wheels

Today she kept barking because she wanted run along the trailer while we cruised.  The LDN is working great that bum knee is really feeling better.  Lately she has even started walking more.  I love you Hayliegh

Hayliegh’s World

LDN and dogs.

We started Hayliegh’s World because she touches so many lives and has brought so many smiles to those who meet her.  Tonight I can hardly believe it Hayliegh who is in her senior years who is dealing w/ liver cancer and a bum knee which has atrophied over the past year.  Well last June she started on LDN for two health reasons mentioned above. It has been 2 months on the treatment and she is walking 50% of the time on all four legs. Tonight I am so excited she used her back bad leg to scratched the side of her body which she hasn’t been able to do in a year.  Friends are noticing her perkier spirit.

After Hayliegh was diagnosed w/ cancer she went on both holistic and medicinal health care.  When a freind mentioned LDN for dogs and inflamed body parts like her BUM knee, I stared to look into it and I found information on dogs and organ cancer too.  I was convinced it was time to take action and a dear friend helped me get Hayliegh started on  the LDN.

Quality over quantity is what counts.  Hayliegh will have to leave me one day that I know, but if I can give her quality in her later years isn’t that what counts.

I am thinking of taking LDN next for connective tissue disease which includes; fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue immune disease, arthritis, IBS and many other health issues that pleg this condition.

Hayliegh says WOOF!

Hayliegh’s World

Lets face it an aging service dog and an owner that will go to any length to keep us together.  I have posted that Hayliegh has a bum knee and cancer.  Her faculties are still working and so is her plumbing. She has not ever been alone and her and I are like two “peas in a pod.”

What I have done since last Oct of 2010 is stay home w/ her if I had to shop I tried to hold her as much as I could.  My arms, hands and back would start to ache.  I gave her and I our pain meds, so we could both feel a little less discomfort.  Her walks have really shortened not because she doesn’t want to it it is the bum knee and maybe the cancer at times. I stopped going out even to the gym or hiking the mountain.  I resorted to my Pilates Machine and started spinning on my road bike on the patio.  Well slowly but surely I was spinning in to a depression not getting  out, you know what I mean!  My thoughts were, she has been there for me and it is my turn to be there for her.

I started praying about this situation and started looking at a way to get out and do life with her. After lots of research we found the “Burley Tail Wagon” its function is two in one stroller/trailer.  This means I can adjust it to push her while she sits in it and I can hook her up to my bike and pull her.  It is great I can use it as a grocery cart because there is enough room even w/ her in it.

Today we made history!  I did not think I could hook this thing up to my bike, so I said God help me.  I was led the computer and the Burley site   ”how to hook up the bike and trailer” video it was so simple and easy.  Even better I worked out on my Pilates machine and Hayliegh and I rode to lake Murray. I opened  the canvas and let Hayliegh ride the wind we rode around the lake twice!  I know I will pay for it, I am just going to have to remember it was worth it.

I can’t believe that I used to ride 175 to 300 miles a week for many years.

UPDATE

It has been a few weeks now and are cruising Lake Murray at least 3 times a week now.  Another blessing is I have dropped a about a half to full size and it feels good.  The sun is shining on us, the cool breeze and the wind blowing by feels like heaven.  We have some photos of our adventure.

What a way to cruise

We have met up w/ a handful of people recently w/ Firbromyalgia whiel out and about.  Everyone comments on Hayliegh’s new Burley stroller they like the idea that we have figured out a way to get out and be together and enjoy life.  Today a very nice woman shared w/ us her Fibro story and her Bishon little dog and how the dog seems to connect w/ her when she is having certain flare ups. I share w/ her that her dog maybe showing her ceratin behaviors and she just doesn’t know to look for them.  We gave her our card “The Hayliegh Project” and hope to hear from her soon.  We met two women yesterday that have Fibro and handed out our card.  I hope we can help the w/ resourses that they may need.

he gift is we are together and lived life today YYYAAA!!!

Hayliegh’s World

Lets face it an aging service dog and an owner that will go to any length to keep us together.  I have posted that Hayliegh has a bum knee and cancer.  Her faculties are still working and so is her plumbing. She has not ever been alone and her and I are like two “peas in a pod.”

What I have done since last Oct of 2010 is stay home w/ her if I had to shop I tried to hold her as much as I could.  My arms, hands and back would start to ache.  I gave her and I our pain meds, so we could both feel a little less discomfort.  Her walks have really shortened not because she doesn’t want to it it is the bum knee and maybe the cancer at times. I stopped going out even to the gym or hiking the mountain.  I resorted to my Pilates Machine and started spinning on my road bike on the patio.  Well slowly but surely I was spinning in to a depression not getting  out, you know what I mean!  My thoughts were, she has been there for me and it is my turn to be there for her.

I started praying about this situation and started looking at a way to get out and do life with her. After lots of research we found the “Burley Tail Wagon” its function is two in one stroller/trailer.  This means I can adjust it to push her while she sits in it and I can hook her up to my bike and pull her.  It is great I can use it as a grocery cart because there is enough room even w/ her in it.

Today we made history!  I did not think I could hook this thing up to my bike, so I said God help me.  I was led the computer and the Burley site   ”how to hook up the bike and trailer” video it was so simple and easy.  Even better I worked out on my Pilates machine and Hayliegh and I rode to lake Murray. I opened  the canvas and let Hayliegh ride the wind we rode around the lake twice!  I know I will pay for it, I am just going to have to remember it was worth it.

I can’t believe that I used to ride 175 to 300 miles a week for many years.

The gift is we are together and lived life today YYYAAA!!!

Hayliegh’s World

Hayliegh and I help a woman watch her dog ”Gilbert” while she left town.  We have been on sabatacle as we didn’t have the access to go on line, three weeks feels like forever in this day and age.

who names their dog “Gilbert?”  Well this little Gilbert has a deep soul running through him. I was told he was tossed out of a car while was turning a corner.  What living soul can live with themselves after doing such a horrible act.

While Hayliegh and I watched over him we were told he probably won’t like treats.  During those 2o plus days and spending time w/ us he soon was looking forward to my healthy flourless oatmeal pancakes just like Hayliegh, he loved, loved, loved the cooked beef liver & the cow tripe well, I think he was feeling a bit of heaven on earth!  ”I became Gilberts new  best friend.”

If I got up to do anything and he was napping he knew because there he would be right there watching me.  He would sit up on the couch by my shoulder just to be close to me. When I would get up  in the am he would roll in the sheets I slept in.  Boy did her like our walks Hayliegh stood in her stroller and Gilbert was perfectly fine leaving his mark on every plant  he could get by.

I heard this loyal little guy helped console his owner while her husband passed and he has through and watched his owner while she battled cancer.

We  were sad to have to say goodbye to Gilbert, but our time was over and we had to go home.

Hayliegh’s World

We went to listen to author Houston M. Burnside an ordained minister who wrote ”A Pew-Sitter’s Search for God.”  The book shares about his is spiritual connections through out his life and what they have meant to him.  Not only was he captivating he had a genuine soul.  Their was sparkle in his eye and when he laughed you couldn’t help, but laugh w/ him.  I could have listened to him for hours.

A great story.

Hayliegh yours truly was in rare form as it interfered w/ her wessert time, so she cried a bit and no one seemed to mind.  actually before the lecture everyone loved greeting her and she even got a book signed.

Hayliegh is having cauliflower for wessert time.

Woof night