"Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures...." - Lewis Carroll
It's a significant month of the year for me. Every year for the last nine years the 20th of May has been significant for me. On this day, in 2009, I set out on the biggest adventure of my life - living! I had cleared out most of what I owned and packed a back pack (my heart still swells every time I look at that pack, and if you've ever travelled like that you'll understand what I mean by my feeling of attachment) and got on a one way flight stopping in Dubai and on to London. Of course my gypsy spirit wouldn't let me stop there, but I won't get too far ahead just yet. This month is also significant for a new reason this year. It's the month that I beat the odds for the first time. This part isn't pleasant reading but when I got the incurable diagnosis I asked for a timeline. A horrible question for any medical professional, I'm sure, both because I imagine it is unpleasant information to deliver and also because there's no definite. My oncologis