"Like a wild flower; she spent her days allowing herself to grow, not many knew of her struggle, but eventually; all knew of her light." Nikki Rowe. Until Maisie had a two week break from chemotherapy, I had never realised that I actually didn't know my own daughter. Not really, not the true little person she was. The Maisie I had come to know and love over the past year had been living with a secret struggle that noone knew about. Hindsight makes it easy to see that all those endless days and weeks that she spent crying, squirming and pulling her little legs up to her chest were not because of colic, silent reflux, constipation or any other 'normal' baby condition that we could blame. She wasn't just an unhappy, restless and irritable baby like we all thought, this wasn't just 'her wee way'. Unbeknown to everyone, this was cancer. All this time she had been fighting against the odds, trying to grow and develop while a cancerous tumour i