That’s it exactly. It’s hard with mum expecting me to do the normal everyday chores. The leaching of energy also drains me of healing sleep that keeps my back pain at bay. Hauling water around to the flowers was almost too much. In some ways it’s much easier to do this alone. If the floors go un vacuumed so what. It’s not a disaster. They’ll get done sooner or later it’s not as if we have dogs or children dragging in the outside. Mum rarely goes out and I always take my shoes off when I come in, so it’s just dust.