Do you have tips on taking care of yourself while also caring for a blind double amputee who often needs you every hour while you try to sleep?

Answer 1

You have to get help in caring for the handicapped person. A blind, double amputee should qualify for home health care, where a nurse and a nurses aid comes during the day to provide medical care, personal care (such as bathing, etc.), and the nurses aide can even do some light housekeeping in the patient's immediate area, such as changing bed sheets, etc. This would give you some much needed help, but a doctor will have to write the order for home health care. Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance pays for it, so that wouldn't be a financial burden for you. But in the meantime, ask family and friends to take turns taking care of the patient so you can get som much needed rest. You may even need to consider putting the patient in a nursing home. If you keep going on as you are, you will become physically, mentally and emotionally exhausted, and will get too sick to care for yourself or the handicapped person. So you need to reach out for all available services and help.