Moving Forward

This chapter highlights Dr Langley’s attempts to survive in her new host country, whilst at the same time providing a safe, secure and happy life for Cayden to thrive in. Still facing challenges such as being swindled by a shipping company in her host country and losing all of her household items in a shipping container that were being shipped from her house in Australia to her host country, Dr Langley engaged lawyers to help her retrieve her memorabilia; however, she learnt that the legal profession and its practitioners were corrupt everywhere in the world. Devastated, Dr Langley was forced to accept that she had lost everything she ever possessed of her life in Australia – memories, photo albums, all Cayden’s belongings – all she and Cayden owned were housed in the four suitcases they arrived with. Despite this, Dr Langley began to heal as the months passed in their new apartment, swimming daily to repair the injuries that Rob had caused to her spine and neck, and connecting with domestic violence and women’s support non-government organizations. Dr Langley also began to write and it was there she wrote this book. In a stroke of pure luck, Dr Langley received news from an old friend of an opportunity to gain citizenship in a new country by way of her profession and ability to contribute her professional skills.