As a refugee living in Wales, I fear I'll never see my ageing parents again

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'What governments don’t realise when they create rules that keep families apart, is the impact it has on our ability to integrate, to learn a new language, to make friends.'

When I first arrived in the UK from NorthernI already spoke a good level of English and I loved the British weather – it was a relief from the stiflingly long hot summers of home.Shortly after my three sisters and I left the bombed and broken town we grew up in, our father had a heart attack due to stress. Now we’ve learnt that our 59-year-old mother has dementia.

It was a really hard time for me but my parents were my rock, travelling the long journey with me back and forth to Damascus, a city in Syria, for all my treatment and operations. But it’s not just my battle with cancer that my parents supported me through. Throughout my whole life, my mother and father gave me the best education they could.

Every Friday, after a busy week of work, I would travel for more than 10 hours to attend lectures in Aleppo, taking a long and convoluted route to avoid the most dangerous areas of conflict. It was a big risk for me to take, but all I have ever wanted is to keep learning and progressing in my career.My favourite thing about my job as a radiographer was helping people. The hospital I worked at was a special one for women and lots of my patients were hoping to get pregnant.

My mother’s dementia is rapidly deteriorating and it is becoming increasingly hard for my father to look after her on his own.

 

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