Nicky

This last past weekend was a hard one for us, the vet gave us the news that Nicky's test results came back that he was worse and that we would have to make some hard decisions. We brought him home to spend some time with him before we had to do the unthinkable. He was listless and so unsteady on his legs. He had little appetite and seemed to want to be doing things but lack the energy to do so. Thursday we bought a new kitty tree and Nicky sat on it once, all the other kitties avoided it but Friday he seemed to struggle to so much as hold his head up. Then he would cry. It killed me. Saturday we just kept him comfortable. We gave him his medicine and IV and I wanted a picture with him.... I'm so selfish. We got the picture but he started crying in pain and we laid him down and decided that he would be better off being put to sleep. We drove out to the critical care hospital and had a few last minutes with him.... I miss the stupid pain in the ass cat so much. I will never forget going out to get the mail in Chico and finding him. Or how he would attack your ankles. How Kai Kai hated him at first, although in the end they were best pals. The pizza, grapes and doritos he would eat. The christmas tree he over turned after it took us like 20 minutes to decorate it. The car ride down from Chico when all he did was bellow. Playing stairs with him in Long Beach. His reaction to Frankie... it wasn't good. Him being on a leash in the hall in Long Beach and the kid coming running and him bolting out of it. He always loved being outside. All the Skipbo games he sat down on the board of, stopping playing. I will never clean the windows and I will leave his nose prints for ever. Waking up with him on top of me after years of him treating me like I was a lowly girl. The way he would wait for David to get out of the shower and then climb all over him. I could never replace him and the paw prints they gave us at the vet hospital aren't nearly enough.

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It is so stupid that the video on my Iphone works portrait style and you can't view it here that way but I will let it stay. Turn your head to look at it.