Be safe and have fun,’ my wife Melissa, then 39, kissed me goodbye as I left to catch a flight.
It was January 2018, and Melissa was staying at home with our son Kai, 18 months.
Working in the medical tech industry, I was heading to Yulara in the Northern Territory, for a three-day conference.
Employees that’d hit their sales targets, like I had, would be rewarded with a surprise gift on the trip.
Sitting down to lunch the next day in the conference centre, the reward was revealed – a 15-minute joy flight around
