Surgery and making arrangements for my clients

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Sorry to hear about the possibility of surgery. I think a lot will depend on what you will be doing after surgery too. Will you be confined to bed or the couch with limited mobility and needs of your own or will you be able to be up and about just not lifting, bending, etc and need to take a nap whenever needed. I'm sure for the time of recovery your daycare parents would be more than willing to have their children remain in the stable environment and just play with no programming or outings. With that in mind the person you fire is there more to supervise, help with the housework and generally do whatever you ask them to do.

You might have some success working through an agency that supplies homemakers/some with psw or other medical training as well. I know when my daughter was helping out with a special needs child the parent was receiving $15 an hour for respite care.

Another option to the long day would be to hire two people and split the shift so that someone is coming in very early in the morning to have the house ready for your own kids to get up, daycare to arrive and to tend to any needs you would have and then someone else arrives during naptime to do the afternoon and early evening shift to help out that way even just playing a game wtih your kids and getting them ready for bed to make it easier for you. That also means between the two of them they could switch out as needed so less chance of being without help. This would also allow use of students from the ECE program, developmental social worker, psw, nursing, almost any field that involves care and nurturing would be able to do what is required for the short term. Students in college are usually more than happy with any payment. Even minimum wage for a student is still a welcome amount for many.