So, for as long as I can remember my Mum has been poorly.

The anxiety & depression which I didnt know about at the time has been with her for years - when I was in Middle School - I would get up in a morning and my Mum would be crying, we would get ready and go to school & she would be crying, we would come home and there would still be tears and then we would go to bed with the situation still the same.

As the years went by it got worse - she didn't go to my eighteenth birthday party, she didn't go to my Uni graduation, she didn't come away with us when we got married, she hasn't been to any of the parties or sports days her Grandchildren have had.

We don't go out for meals to celebrate her birthday or take her for Afternoon Tea on Mother's Day, she didn't come wedding dress hunting with me, we've never had Mother-Daughter shopping afternoons and there isn't even one single photograph of any of us with my Mum floating about - not one.

Yes she has depression & she has anxiety, she is also a diagnosed agoraphobic, she has lymphadema and cellulitis in her legs and she has arthritis in her knees, hips, and more worryingly (as it's only going to worsen) in her spine.

So things such as climbing the stairs in the 3 bedroom house she now lives in alone, lifting her leg over the bath to get into her shower, sitting down in the bath, became impossible and for the past 2 years there has been none of this.

~ her sofa has been her bed

~ her personal hygiene has been left to washes and teeth brushing at a downstairs sink

After a lengthy process & help from our local Labour MP she will FINALLY be moved to a ground floor, 1 bed flat with a walk in shower.

AMAZING

But after 2 years with no bed, Im asking for help to get her one. One with a matteress that will ease her pain a little as the arthritus gets worse.

Finally, some light at the end of the tunnel for my amazing Mum - my only 53 year old Mum...

Thanks so much xx