Well, here's a problem. If I go back to work, then I'm leaving my wife alone all by herself who is bedridden.
A year ago her health went south after what was supposed to be a simple catheter surgery. She was laying flat on her back, fluid started building up on her lungs, which collapsed.
Then her heart started defibbing, running at 140bpm. She had a congestive heart failure.
Next she had a renal failure. Then she had a stroke.
After spending a year being hospitalized, she came home on May 13th of this year.
Her entire left side is very weak, including the fact her left hand is all curled up.
She gets some home aid, a nurse that comes to see her every 2 weeks, a bath nurse once a week and a OT once a week. But none of them can stay for more than 3 hrs.
I'm trying to get more nursing help, but dang, they're hard to get.
I don't want to leave my wife since she requires care 24/7. I have a remote thingy set up for her that when I am in bed, she hits a keychained remote thingy that will activate a strobe light that wakes me up and I get up to see what she needs.
My wife is a double amputee (no legs) and she can't get on the electric wheelchair by herself, so I have to use a hoyer lift to lift her off the bed and into the wheelchair.
She requires dialysis 3 times a week, M, W & F.
I love taking care of my wife and I have no problems doing the job.
She's on like 5 medications, some 4 times a day. She's also diabetic so she needs her insulin everynight at bedtime (Lantus, 24 hr insulin)
Plus she's breathing through her trait. (tube in her throat)
So I am in a rock and a hard place. I want to support my wife 1000%, if I go to work, I'll be worried sick. I just don't wanna leave her alone.
Right now, I'm on unemployment insurance, I got laid off from my job. I reapplied with an emergency extension and that gives me like 2 more months of benefits.
I don't know what I'll do when it runs out.
Yiz