I just sent a prayer up for phone and you.

Since you have an Iphone, you're way beyond me in electronic savvy. I'm still using the old-fashioned cell phone I got back in 2006 . . . and dread ever having to use a newer one.

I did, however, have a problem back in 2007 and was very surprised at what the problem was. Maybe this could apply to your phone . . . or not. I was told that I had been overcharging the phone. It got so that my phone wouldn't hold a charge for any length of time. A technician told me that the enemies of electronic stuff are #1) Voltage and #2) heat. He explained that it was a good idea to let the battery run down to nothing on a regular basis to "condition" it properly. Once I started doing that, my phone stopped giving me any issues.

That might not have any application to your IPhone. To be honest, if you can't have a back up battery for your IPhone, then that sounds like a bad feature, or lack thereof . . . especially for you, since you depend on it so much.

Let us know how things work out with the phone, and with you in general. I'ld like to learn what ends up being the solution to a problem like you're phone is having.