Watching a 10-year-old boy care for his sick mum, my heart broke into a million pieces.
She was a patient at Albury Base Hospital where, aged 17, I worked as a nurse. The little boy was by his mum’s bedside morning to night, and back then there was no-one to check on his wellbeing.
I’d noticed carers were sometimes worn out and their health was suffering.
I wish I could support them, I thought, but I didn’t know how.
Four years later I got married to Michael, then 23, and