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What a long, long day. A bit chaotic but overall good.

We stayed in Auckland overnight, had a filling if mediocre croissant breakfast at a cafe, then off to the appointment with Michelle, the oncologist.

Michelle is lovely and I feel so happy to have someone focused on next steps for me. We had an hour with her, ending with her managing to book a CT for this afternoon.

Now of course this afternoon the plan was to pick up a kitten but we couldn’t turn this down so at 12 we were driving into the carpark of a clinic for a 1pm appointment, only to find we were in the wrong place and had to reorient. Good thing we were early!

We got the scan done, fought our way through slow Auckland traffic, and made it to the Thames SPCA five minutes before closing… and then encountered a new problem. The kitten the SPCA were holding aside was the wrong one.

The smokey grey kitten had a lovely nature but was not the black and white kitten we’d chosen. Turned out the wrong photo was attached to the file. But then there was new problem because the black and white one was a girl and we’d been told we were getting two boys.

There’s no boy black and white at the SPCA, and all hree kittens from that litter were still there so we can only conclude that she is who we met, she’s not a boy, and her name wasn’t Zac.

So after a lot of paperwork (because we had paid for Zac on the Saturday and had to ‘return’ him) we brought her home.

So here we introduce Daisy Days.

Daisy is a couple of weeks older than Leroy and is decidedly more mature, but she’s also stil recovering from her spaying, with stitches still to remove, and Leroy wants to ply rough. He’s overjoyed to have a friend again, and expresses that by attacking her every time her back is turned. There’s no malice in it, nor claws or teeth, but it’s tiresome for her so we’ve had to intervene a bit. That said, they’re not enemies.  Here they are both having a drink from the same bowl.

So there we haveit. We got home about 5 and have been playing mediator for the last two hours but we’ve finally settled down a bit at the end of a long day.

Good night 🙂