yes.
It's been done, I can show you when I get in but the real question comes down to current draw and availability of current for the 1108 circuit.
you can use a small DC-DC converter, You can also do it with a 7824 and instead of reverence to ground, the ground pin goes on the negative side... I have the exact deets on a design where we implemented it that way. let me pull it up and get back to you.