We need HELP!!

Well, let the insanity ensue. After 4 days in the hospital and countless types of antibiotics, we are home. However, the meds continue. They have put a PICC line in my arm and sent me home for Duane to administer my antibiotics 3 times a day intravenously. Talk about “in sickness & in health.”
For those of you who don’t know what a PICC line is, it is a long catheter in one of my veins starting in my left elbow pit running up my arm, over my shoulder and stopping just above my heart. It is designed to handle the stronger medicines given intravenously that most superficial veins in your hands and arms cannot handle. Trust me, this stuff they have me on is potent & it burns like fire! It was burning my superficial veins in the hospital to the point of tears.
So, for 7 days I can’t do anything that would get the bandage wet (i.e. shower and give my son a bath, or wash my hair in the sink). Nor can I do any housework or much lifting. So things like straightening up the house, putting the dishes away, lifting the laundry basket, etc… just have to sit there.
The good news is that the prognosis looks good. It seems this regimen of meds is getting the infection out of the breast. There is no abscess that needs to be surgically removed.
The bad news is mommy and daddy are wearing thin. The demands of new parents with a 3 week old are overwhelming enough. Then add the fact that a two man team has suddenly become a one man team (Duane)… well… it’s not good. And to make matters worse my breasts are engorged with extra milk coming in from all the pumping they made me do at the hospital to get the infected milk out.
So in the name of all this craziness & insanity, Duane and I would like to officially ask for help. We are in over our heads in all this and really do need help. Help in someone coming by and watching Alex while we take a mid-afternoon nap, help in going grocery shopping or other minor errands, help in straightening up the house, or simply walking to the mailbox to get the mail… the list goes on. The one area we are most desperate for help is in the hours of 7pm- midnight. That is the time when a lot of things seem to happen all at once and I am hooked up to the IV for two hours during that time and Duane is doing everything. It is also the time Alex seems to get the most fussy and a crying baby just seems to make everything worse.
It seems the Lord is teaching us how to do something that in the past has been difficult for both of us, humbling ourselves to ask for help. But we are the body of Christ, and we are to walk in body life with one another. 'That includes learning to help and be helped. So, PLEASE HELP!! If you can offer us any time, we GLADLY accept.
881-5160 is our home number.
Love- the Keatons.