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[quote=Anonymous]OP, go back home. Go back to your house and your husband, and reopen your business. It's time for you to step back now.

Why isn't your sister helping more?

You say that you have  a very large family and that you are one of 32 nieces and nephews. Why is no one else volunteering?
Why should it be YOU?

I was in a similar position years ago, when my father (a widower) was very ill but he refused to move to more appropriate accommodation and he also cancelled the home aides I had organized for him.

I am an only child and my husband and I live 6 hours away. 
DH and I would drive to my father's house whenever we were able to, to help at weekends (DH and I both work) but in the end it was unsustainable to drive there every weekend.

Most of my (able-bodied) relatives lived about 10 minutes away from my father's house but NO ONE volunteered to help, even just checking in or calling my father to see if he was OK. 
To be fair, one of my uncles and his wife did buy and deliver my father's groceries for a while but they grew tired of it eventually.

The burden landed on my shoulders in the end, even if I lived 6 hours away.

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