Originally Posted by noise

my cat is dying of leukemia, and i'm quite upset about it. it all came on so suddenly. a few weeks ago, he was his usual wild troublemaker self. then boom - complete change. we got the diagnosis just over 2 weeks ago. now he's just skin and bones. he hardly eats and sleeps all the time.

i can still get him to purr softly if i hold him in my lap and scratch in this one particular spot behind his ears...

we were at the vet today. he's so anemic that the only hope is interferon, which we can't afford. probably wouldn't work anyway. she gave him a steroid injection to try to give his body a boost, but if he's not shown any improvement by the end of the week, we have to let him go.

it pretty much just sucks. he was the coolest cat ever. he loved everybody and he could do some pretty neat tricks. i'm really gonna miss the little dude.