TLDR: bright red spot on kittens spay incision that wasn't there yesterday, looked perfect every day until this evening. kitten acting completely normal.

so I (24f, based in the US) would like to clarify that we more than likely will be bringing her in to be seen tomorrow at 1 when the place opens no matter what- however if anyone can give me information and words of advice that would be great. as I said in the caption she is 9 weeks old, coming up on her 10 week mark the day after tomorrow. she was spayed the same day we adopted her which was on the 19th, and we believe she was spayed in the morning between 8 and 10am based off of when they called us to let us know that she was ready. 

she was naturally shy at first but opened up a bit, has been extremely affectionate, her appetite is fine snd shes hydrated (she ate and had water maybe an hour ago max), she has peed and pooped every day, all poops have been softer but definitely solid. the night before last night she played for the first time and it wasn't overly crazy she just jumped around my mattress a little because our fan was blowing air under it. last night she was wanting to play and jump and climb and we limited her as much as possible, we naturally kitten proofed but because she was just spayed I was not comfortable with the amount of movement she was doing and has to keep redirecting her. she also was meowing her head off, but playing with toys so i dont think it was cties of pain. it was exhausting and I was up until after 6am with her before she finally fell asleep- which is fine. I chose to adopt a baby animal and shes acting like a baby animal, ive raised plenty before but I havent not raised a pediatric spay THIS young before.

fast forward to when I woke up after a 5 hour nap, I checked her incision and it was for sure a little bit red but the swelling had gone down even more and the skin has no gaping spaces, still a little knot from inflammation but like I said it had gone down. she still being her usual happy purring self so I chalked it up to bruising and moved on. then maybe 3 hours later I checked again and it looked like it does in the photos. she is not acting as if shes in pain, in fact she is LIVID!!!! because I made a little donut cone out of a sock for her (it is factually stopping her from licking, I checked. I can also fit 2 fingers underneath and she is breathing fine), and I also put her in her nighttime padded dog crate to help her lower her activity. she then started climbing the dog crate and I was personally becoming scared she was going to scrape or hurt her incision so I waited for her to pee and poop one more time and I put her back in her cat carrier. she was upset for maybe 5 more minutes but I covered it with a shirt that smells like me and shes now sleeping. shes not showing any signs at all of being in pain- i cannot stress that enough.  

please let me know if you think this will be bad or if its maybe a surface level type of scrape maybe? just to ease my mind i need to know what i might be up against tomorrow. we can afford at least a couple hundred in care but it would not be ideal, we will do anything it takes to make her healthy if it comes to that though

I plan on letting her out for food water and litter box again in about an hour. ill let her walk around so long as shes being chill and then ill try again to put her to bed in the dog crate because I havent slept more than 3-5 hours in days and ill need rest before bringing her to see a vet. shes perfect, im just so worried!! 

sorry I keep posting all over the cat side of reddit yall, I just love my baby

sorry for mistakes in my writing im completely exhausted 

my 9 week old kittens 4 day old spay incision is suddenly bright red today