Let me tell you, I thought I was making chicken feed working for an unnamed company, but what I didn’t realize is that you only make 1/3 your pay on disability. Its not like I had much choice, I had an umbilical hernia & what I also had was a lot of pain. Whenever I would eat something, I would immediately feel pain. This wasn’t a really light pain; this was a throbbing pain I would feel until I digested my food. If anyone out there wants to know about hernia surgery, I can tell you that you’re in & out pretty quick usually. In my case though, this was NOT the case. It took me about 5 hours to get discharged, & the kicker was I had to use the bathroom before I was allowed to leave. I was then in the most pain I every experienced in my life, not only was I broke, but I was forced to lay around for about a month. For someone like me, I am very bored if I am not doing something. Watching the shows on a daily basis was the worst thing about being home; I am not a soap opera person anymore. There was a time I was forced to watch that stuff when I was little, but those days passed me quite a long time ago.

If you are planning to have this type of thing done, please make sure you save up a little cash, because you will definitely need it. I had to have enough for the health meds & also I had to eat, so I had to have enough to where I can buy some meals. Let’s face it, I wasn’t able to cook very much in the beginning, & I had the best woman in the world make me meals here & there which helped me out very much. I don’t know where I would have been without my Kerrie & my little 3 year old daughter, who was very gently rubbing my booboo in the beginning. Well, a month finally got here & I have been cleared to go back to work. Now, I have to have enough to put gas in my car & eat every day, & I can tell you it won’t be very easy. Money is just about running out, & as far as disability pay, let’s just say it is better than nothing, but it’s pretty darn close to having nothing.