I am 43 & caring for my 91 yr old mother. I can't go anywhere because she requires insulin injections & no one else can give them. Hopefully some respite care will get approved through Medicaid soon but they do not cover injections. I am losing my mind.. No other family to help out.
I run 3 businesses from home and they are struggling due to the economy and my absence. Lately I get less than 6 hours nightly sleep due to the night terrors. I work 1 day a week doing psychic readings at my center for my own financial support. I am a 67 year old only child whose children are not very involved at all. The day that I work my grand-daughter-in law comes in for 4 hours. My mother awakens mid afternoon after a nap on the couch and thinks that everybody has been out all night long and its morning - there's much more. Fortunately after her last 3 hospitalizations, the kidney infection has cleared and she's mostly in her right mind, but I'm going crazy. I am married, but my husband is working at the businesses and helping his son remodel a house. I'm feeling very alone in this one. Fortunately Mother is lucid and on in the mornings and early afternoons. She is my companion as I am hers.