I’m caring for my mum who has advanced breast cancer. She normally lives abroad and is only here for treatment, 6 months now and many more to go. I have no other family here as they’re all back home. I’m also married and have 3 young kids with different needs. I have had to go part time at work because it was all too much for me and I wasn’t coping. The caring demands are relentless, I’m so exhated and feeling extremely low, everyday. My ‘friends’ have slowly disappeared as I never have time to go out or cancel plans. I’m stuck in a routine that leaving me mentally and physically rundown b I have no escape. There’s no one to look after mum. My siblings visa applications have all been rejected so no one is able to come and help me out. I’ve never been in such a lonely, isolated, depressing place in my life and I just don’t know if I can do this anymore. Anyone willing to make a new friend, if even just to talk? No one around me, not even my husband, seems to understand what I’m going through.
