Little update as I go to lunch, the consultants team aren’t meeting today so my case gets reviewed next Wednesday rather than today. Nothing to be done about it, I just have to keep waiting.

In a way, it all starts with me wanting to donate blood. I did my gap year in England in 1996 at the height of the ‘mad cow disease’ outbreak so there was a chance of me developing Creuzfeld-Jakob disease sometime in the following 40 years. There was no test for it, you just had…

Way back circa 2005 I set up my first ever blog as a web 2.0 exercise my team were working through. At the time I chose the somewhat unimaginative name KiwiCat. Later on, I kept a different blog while I lived in Wellington, to keep my Auckland-based friends and family up with what I was…