🗨️ I’ve been helping to look after my stepdad since I was five years old. To be honest I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t a carer – it’s all I’ve ever known
has found more than a third of young carers do not look forward to the summer break as they feel more stressed or worried than in term-time. Lowis, 15, is a young carer for her step-dad, Ger, 42, who has Friedreich ataxia – a rare inherited disease that causes progressive damage to his nervous system. Lowis spends four hours daily caring, but this rises to seven or eight in the holidays. She livesI’ve been helping to look after my stepdad since I was five years old.
As a family we don’t really have a summer holiday, it doesn’t really happen, so we’ll stay in Pembrokeshire and probably go on days out instead. But I still don’t have the freedom to do what I want like lots of people my age. Knowing that I can’t always join in with my friends can be a bit upsetting.I have set things I need to do to help Ger and that only stops when I have the odd young carers’ day out or I stay with my dad.
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