That's a tough situation to be in. I feel for you and hope you can find peace in the situation you are in.

My wife has a similar friend in Michigan who is home-bound (wheelchair, polio victim). Her husband goes to work and sometimes out of town. She's truly stuck in the apartment.

The good thing is now with PCs and internet, our ability to share with people and meet fellow souls actually is far bigger and wider than we ever had "before". Imagine without the PC or the internet in the 1980s or before (back in the stone-age, huh?) Find beauty in what you have - it's there.