Handle with Care: My life as a young carer, the loss of my parents and how I learned to live again

✍ Scribed by Rochelle Bugg

• Publisher: John Blake
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this heart-breaking, inspirational memoir, Rochelle nurses her beloved mother through a terminal brain tumour. With sensitivity and enormous emotional depth, Handle with Care provides a window into the life of a young carer.
When her mum falls seriously ill, 25-year-old Rochelle decides to give up her new job and move home to become her mother's full-time carer and look after her sisters. After the initial diagnosis of a stroke gives way to one of terminal cancer, Rochelle cares for her mother through her illness - helping her as the illness makes everyday life increasingly difficult - and remaining by her side when she passes away. And then, while still grieving, Rochelle must find her way back into the world again.
A moving, painfully honest account, Handle with Care is a book about the agony of loss and the transformative power of grief, as well as an emotional handbook for anyone who has lost a loved one.

✦ Subjects

Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, Medical, Nonfiction, BIO017000, FAM014000, MED042000