CATastrophe!

If cats could talk, they wouldn't.

- Nan Porter

A few weeks ago Chapka (our cat) disappeared during the day and didn't return that night. In the morning she still wasn't home and Sandrine had been out looking for her quite a few times and worrying herself like "mothers" do... when I got home from school Sandrine had finally found Chapka, trapped underneath the neighbour's porch and she couldn't move her right leg. When I got home, she seemed totally out of it and was shivering like crazy, not eating nor drinking and Sandrine panicked! She called around to local vets but they requested at least 200 CAD = 1,300 SEK to examine her - and then an x-ray of her leg wasn't even included! Sandrine was absolutely devasted because that's an insane amount of money to ask for a simple check-up!

Later we got some good news when the cat-lady across the road (yes, she's like 60+, single, and owns like 8 cats), who let us know that her leg wasn't broken and she just needed to be looked after for a couple of weeks. Sandrine also got hold of her friend from France whose dad's a doctor and she got some advice on what to do so Sandrine turned into Dr. Sandrine for a while!

While I was away on my vacation it turned out that Chapka wasn't doing all that well so nowadays she's all high on meds 24/7 - crazy. Just by seeing how Sandrine has taken all this I'm pretty confident she'll turn into a wonderful mother one day, while Theresa and I concluded this morning that we so don't want kids anytime soon - god what a hassle it must be.