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Excel tears, suitcase math, and a research poster that still has to survive questions from strangers across the world. We are doing a quick catch-up because our planned guest fell through, and honestly, the timing could not be more perfect: Bianca is hours away from flying to Japan while trying to finish figures, understand her tables, and stay ahead of vet school exams. We talk through the real mechanics of getting ready for a conference presentation, from trial-and-error in Excel to leaning on a mentor, a statistician, and sheer stubbornness to make the data make sense.

We also get into the unglamorous side of travel planning, like bag fees, tiny hotels, and the fantasy that you will “pack light” when your toiletries are basically a second carry-on. Gary shares a painfully funny luggage story from an overnight train in Italy that turns into an accidental lesson on what compact travel really means.

Then we shift into the veterinary heart of the episode: meeting Miss Waffles, a senior shelter cat we adopted with hyperthyroidism, biopsy-confirmed intestinal lymphoma, hypertension, and deafness. We walk through how we think about quality of life, monitoring lab work, adjusting meds, and the surprisingly tricky task of finding compounded chlorambucil in a tiny, precise dose. If you love veterinary medicine, shelter adoption, feline internal medicine, and honest behind-the-scenes talk, this one will land.

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