Thank you for your support and suggestions.

As this has been going on for awhile, I've looked into the things that have been suggested already. There really are no resources available for us.

I called around to a lot of in-home nursing services in my area earlier this year, but we simply can't afford any of them and none have sliding scale options. We also have discussed our situation with the nurses that come over 2x/week, thinking they might know of some places that could refer us to help or provide us with something, but they were unable to find us any extra help.

The phone idea is a good one that we actually started doing not too long ago. So far, we haven't had to use it, but it takes away some of the worry for me.

I guess you could consider it a break, because I do get some "me time" around noon, because she tends to sleep during the day for 1-2 hours. I'm unable to leave the house though, because I don't have a driver's license at the moment and my neighbors all work, so our schedules don't really sync up very well.