morgan_dhu | Things Get Better and Worse

The Better: My application for Long-term Disability benefits through my employer's insurance has been approved. So, I now will be getting about 60% of my former monthly salary. While I am happy to be getting this, still... why is it assumed that it is cheaper to be a person with disabilities than to be a person without disabilities? My mortgage doesn't go down by one-third, food isn't cheaper, I don't see anyone offering me one-third off my utilities or taxes. So... the big thing now is to figure out how to find the rest of the money we need each month to cover our basic living costs.

The Worse: Thanks to a horrible itching cough that is now almost constant, and which may be a permanent side-effect of the medication I'm taking for my heart arrhythmia, and my body's decision that peeing every two to three hours is the coolest thing every (for those who wonder, I've been tested for diabetes, blood sugar is just fine), I am now unable to sleep for more than an hour or so at a time before either my bladder or my cough wakes me up. And then my cough keeps me from going back to sleep for several hours. Getting less than six hours of sleep a day, in one-hour fragments, is not conducive to much of anything.