Caring for parents is one of the most demanding and stressful things in life. It is exhausting. You compromise your social life, your finances, your career, as well as your own health and well-being.
Yet doing it was, and remains, for me, the most important and valuable thing I could have done.
I didn't realise just how important it was to me until my mother died. I had always been close to her but more so in her last few years than in the 43 years before that.