This is my first DK 4 diary...and another purely personal one...
Myself and my roomate two people with disabilities have been trying to keep working, and then trying to keep each other afloat for 14 years. For fourteen years, she's been my caregiver while she also holds down a full time job. I held down a full time job before I knew her, and for seven years after we decided to share expenses here in Denver.
Six months ago, she was making good money in a call center. Sedentary work is the only work she could do due to severe asthma, nerve damage in one leg and a back injury, but she was a real star at that job. Commendations, solid work, etc. Her impairments did make her use a lot of FMLA. And...wait for it...she was a high utilizer of the company's health insurance.
I've been back on disability housebound since early 2009. More below the fold
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