Thanks...just the news of cancer is sudden...when he was showing signs of his personality coming back.

Emerald - the prognosis for nose cancer: chemo can give a cat 8 - 10 months. Radiation is palliative. For comfort only. There is no cure.

Pyka just wants to be held and loved.

It hurts more because he was one of my sister's beloved cats, and she died just last year.

Pyka will be loved - please pray that his passing is peaceful. He still has the morphine patch on...hopefully that will help, though it was to come off today.

He hadn't purred yet, though. So maybe that says something.