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[quote=Anonymous]My spouse has been hospitalized with a totally unexpected, out of left field serious illness.  I feel gobsmacked.  A car accident or heart attack would make more sense to me.  We are looking at major surgery with a recovery of several months including a period of at home nursing for implanted devices.  I am five months pregnant with a preschooler.  We have no family or friends able to help (and I'm not sure what I would ask them to do anyway) but I am already exhausted from runs to the hospital twice a day and so is the kid.  We have money to hire people but I've never been comfortable with having strangers in the house (other than the occasional babysitter or cleaners when we had them before). I don't know how to "be" with people in the house (any kind of contractor/repair person) but I also have no idea how I'm going to keep my sanity if I'm tending to both DH and our kid. A look at our timeline has him getting better right when the new baby is due.  Suggestions, advice, please.  How did you weather the storm?[/quote]

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