A student in Paris, Romane learned more than a year ago that her mother has stage 4 colon cancer. "I immediately thought the worst because I heard words which are scary, ”recalls the 23-year-old young woman.
She then decides to put her student life aside to help her mother, and then becomes a caregiver...
"You can't imagine having to do that for a parent when you're young"
“Everything I do for my mom, who is the person I love the most in the world, has a name – helping – and it is legally recognized.
In practice, that means cooking for him, helping him to wash himself, things you wouldn't imagine having to do for a parent when you're young.
But I needed to do it, it was normal that I help him”.
Voluntary, Romane nevertheless continues her studies in parallel: "I validated the end of my master's degree, but I was less in my studies than in this role of caregiver because it took on so much importance that it occupied all my thoughts. , she says.
It is sure that I was less "performing" than when I just had to be a student, finally ".
OUR “CANCER” FILE
“Romane is by no means an isolated case, she is one of the 700,000 young caregivers in France, explains Amarantha Bourgeois, director of the national association of Young Caregivers Together (JADE).
And this figure is probably underestimated because it is an estimate and not a prevalence”.
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