It is hard to believe that it has been a year since we snapped this picture in front of our house in Canberra before we hopped in a rented car (our hastily packed nine suitcases somehow crammed in there) and headed for Sydney and home. Looking back, I now realize what a complete altered state I was living in for the next six weeks. Brain cancer, brain surgery, chemotherapy - the kind of words that make you do a double take - is this real? Did I hear that correctly? I was fortunate enough to have never had a serious illness in my life and so nothing compelled me to think about it too much.
