I didn’t need to plan every remaining year that night.

I wrote the first amount I intended to request instead.

Eight thousand dollars reserved for documented medical needs, including the treatment and follow-up I had postponed.

Six thousand for housing and related support over the first period while I decided what came next.

Fourteen thousand altogether.

The first confirmed rent payments would cover three months at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars, a total of two thousand six hundred and twenty-five.

The housing allocation was larger because it needed room for utilities and later decisions, not because three months of rent had somehow become six thousand dollars.