My mum has been diagnosed with cancer, possibly spreading to all her organs but is definitely in her lungs. I'm 24, live with my mum, her partner, we have 6 dogs which means someone needs to be home at all times. My mum took retirement to look after the home. If I lose my mum, I have no idea how to go on. My stepdad (mum's partner) is a lot to handle when he's upset, I have my own health issues and dealing with him this past 2 weeks has been so irritating, I've not been able to open up to him about how I feel as he's just going on about himself. Both myself and my stepdad work full time, luckily I work 3 on, 4 off, 4 on, 3 off etc, so we can work a rota where he works from home when I need to go to work, then he can go into the office when I have my days off. But, I'm not sure I'll want to stick around if I lose my mum... But then that'll leave my stepdad in a tough situation with 5 dogs (1 dog would be with me), and he's already said it'd be harder if I wasn't around. Without my mum, I have no blood family left, other than some that live over 300 miles away from me. I'm also hoping to go to uni in 2023 to study medicine and move to the same city, what would happen to that? My entire life is about to come tumbling, not only will I lose my mum, my future, freedom and dreams will be lost with her
