‘Nothing prepares you’: The invisible lives of carers in the UK

West London, UK – It was a rainy evening, and my mother and I were at home watching a Bollywood comedy when I received a call from the hospital.

After months of medical appointments and misdiagnoses, part of me wanted to ignore it. Instead, I went upstairs to answer. The doctor was calling to say my mother’s bone marrow results were back, and we had to go into the hospital the n...