Caring for someone with a terminal illness

Sarah: With most carers it’s -, and people's conditions, it often creeps up on.. doesn't it? You don't necessarily choose to take on the care of someone. It's something that happens and comes to you.

Una: I think it's crept up a bit by bit, you know, as you add on more and more tasks that you do.

Roger: I saw my job as taking care of Teresa’s needs. Being her representative, being her mouthpiece, as well as her partner and everything else.

Janet: You know I felt we actually drew close together because we began to really talk about some things that we've maybe not bothered to talk about before because it didn't seem to be important. But we began to talk much more about what we meant to each other and the things that we’d experienced, that we really enjoyed together. So that was a positive thing.

Cassie: All of my needs and what I wanted and what I needed during the time that he was ill, during sort of nine months, eight, nine months, just went -, completely went out the window. I stopped caring about me and it was just caring for my dad. That was it. That's all that mattered.