Yes being a Carer is hard work but the reason we do it is a four letter word called Love. A friend of mine has become a Carer to her Mother but as she puts it "I am caring for someone who never cared for me" She apparently had a very fractured childhood with both Parents being Alcoholics. Today she says she would probably have been taken into care. Unfortunately not everyone has a childhood where they felt loved, cared for and protected. I feel so much for her as she is struggling with this role out of a sense of some sort of duty rather than love. She has she says ended up like this because the hospital her Mother was discharged from and Social Services have told her in no uncertain terms that her Mother is her responsibility. I have advised her to talk to them again to see what care is available because she need support to.
Daniel “Tommo” Thomas charged, no bail.
