I have been reading a few of my posts on here the last week or so after a bit of a melt down, which have may have been a bit negative and maybe angry but one reply on here which was only two lines long gave me the inspiration and insight to make me realise that no matter what is thrown at us, we should ALL be so proud of ourselves as carers. We are doing what we can, no matter where we are from, or what our backgrounds are and circumstances but no matter what, we all do EVERYTHING we can for the person we love because we CARE. My MIL even with her dementia said today just said "thank you for just being you" and it does not matter what else is thrown at me, I don't care, that means the world. I am going to hold onto that for the future, so sod whatever anyone else says, does or thinks, I know that I am doing the best that I can and that is all anyone can do. I am proud of myself and so should we all. X