If your wife's care is getting to be too much for you then you'll either have to hire full-time in-home help or start looking into facilities to place her in, where you can get back to just being her loving husband and advocate and not her burned out and overwhelmed caregiver. Please don't forget that you matter too in this equation.
Do you mean your wife is struggling to take care of her own needs, or do you mean that you are struggling to address her needs as she becomes progressively more ill.
As you imagine, there's no way we can help or suggest anything without knowing your wife's mental and physical disabilities right now. But I will say that you will have to decide how much you can do, how long you can go on, and when it's time to understand that your wife will soon need the care of more than one person and shifts of people 24/7. Trying to do that yourself, as one person, not only takes you from being a loving husband to being a caregiver, but it could well injure or kill you. And that would leave your wife with no one who care.
Heart out to you. Do fill us in when you have time.
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Please don't forget that you matter too in this equation.
Do you mean your wife is struggling to take care of her own needs, or do you mean that you are struggling to address her needs as she becomes progressively more ill.
As you imagine, there's no way we can help or suggest anything without knowing your wife's mental and physical disabilities right now.
But I will say that you will have to decide how much you can do, how long you can go on, and when it's time to understand that your wife will soon need the care of more than one person and shifts of people 24/7. Trying to do that yourself, as one person, not only takes you from being a loving husband to being a caregiver, but it could well injure or kill you. And that would leave your wife with no one who care.
Heart out to you. Do fill us in when you have time.
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