Power steering stopped working today

I know that I need a new battery but the past 2 days my car was hard to start. When I turned it over, no noise not even clicking. So I thought my battery was dead. But I waited a couple minutes and turned my radio of and it started. Today I had to try a couple extra times but finally it started. I started driving to work but on each turn I made the steering got harder and harder. I decided I better go back home. It became very, very difficult to turn my steering wheel. I really don’t want to have to tow it to the nearest Honda Dealer nor do I want them to work on it because they cost so much. I don’t know what to do. I read on your website where someone had a similar problem and he was told he would have to have the car scanned for codes to know what was wrong but the person could help them if he knew what the codes were. I don’t know how to get my car scanned to get the codes. Also what I read of the other person was in 2011. I tried to post a question there but nobody replied. I think because it was so old. Please help!