Never apologize for sharing what's important to you!! I can absolutely relate to you, in fact my parrot was what kept me going- little turd would fling her food at me until I got out of bed and played with her. My hubby figured out I would get up for animals when I wouldn't for myself.
Fast forward a few months and now we have dogs chinchillas ferrets rats hamsters snakes bearded dragons and the bird. Every time I get the schedule down pat and start to have too much free time (which is dangerous for me) something else shows up. Right now I'm hand feeding a rat pup. Every two hours. (The three balls all refused it. Turds.) so now it's a pet and I'm desperately trying to keep it going.
Speaking of which, the alarm just went off. Gotta go make formula.