My Mum has breast cancer that has spread to the liver and brain, prognosis isn’t good as you can imagine.
I’m now living in with her 5 days a week as she can’t be alone due to risk of seizures, she’s otherwise physically able to look after herself and if you didn’t know about the diagnosis you wouldn’t know there was anything going on.
The thing is she’s depressed, which is understandable, and will not leave the house - which means I also don’t leave the house.
In the past month I’ve managed to get her to briefly leave the house only twice.
Any advice for activities or ways that might be good to start getting out?
I feel like she’s given up, and I don’t want her to spend the rest of her life sitting in the corner of the sofa staring at the tv. It’s not good for either of us.
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