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Good luck, blue!!
I sympathize--I've done the "one man IT shop" thing. Well, OK, still doing it mostly, I have a little help now. And there are compensations. (I came from a situation where I was on a staff of 11 in the Academic Computing Center, so it was a chance to run things my own way, and build something from the ground up. There are worse things.)
The problem is, if you're good and you're conscientious, you can keep a lot of plates in the air, and that encourages your employer to think that it's OK, you really don't need any help because you're doing fine. Unfortunately sometimes it takes a failure or a catastrophe to drive home to people how frayed the shoestring you're working with is.
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