In 2021 we moved into our new home together with this little lady and her sister Gidget. Unfortunately, at just two weeks in Milly got out and we have never seen her since. We did all the things you do, put notices in all the lost pets options online. Rang vets, walked for miles calling her name to no avail. So, after a while we realised we weren’t going to find her.
Fast forward to 2025 and I get a phone call out of the blue from one of the local vets. They had been brought in a cat that was microchipped and did we own a cat called Milly? I was so unprepared for that! Ade couldn’t believe it either. Now Milly is 15 years old and we have not long had to have her sister put down due to a raft of health issues.
Ade and I drove to the vets feeling emotional and thinking – as we can’t have the responsibility of pets and costs etc now – that we would probably have to have her put to sleep. We get to the vets and we find out that a lovely lady has been feeding her for six months and it has taken that long to gain her trust and to be able to catch her to take her to the vet to check the microchip. We had just finished tearfully saying we weren’t in a position to have her back when the vet nurse said ‘Barbara said that she hoped that she would be able to keep Milly as she has grown very fond of her. More tears and we provided our number so that her new owner can ring me so I can change the address on the microchip.
Such a bolt from the blue, but with the happiest of outcomes!
Three years on the loose, living off the land and now she has a new loving retirement home.
The best outcome that we could have wished for.
Ain’t life funny sometimes!
Just like with Milly, in this Parkinson’s life we have, we can be tempted to give up hope and expect our outcome to be less than positive. However, the longer we have the more time those clever boffins who look for cures and better treatments, have to find something that may change our ultimate outcome.
Maybe we should keep hold of hope longer and not leap forward to a negative outcome, but have a little faith and maybe our future and our latter years might be better than we could imagine.
My journey with Parkinsons 