well I'm writing an update with a heavy heart... I figured those of you who cared should know what happened.

we got all three tests back a week or so ago, and they were all positive for FIP, but because of the way the tests had to be done, there was still a 10% chance that it wasn't, and he had seemed to be getting better, so we were still being pretty positive about it until a couple days ago. It became apparent in a blink of an eye.. he laid down on his favorite blanket, in his favorite spot, and since he had been sleeping a lot in the past couple weeks, it was quite common to see him right there, sleeping just like he was... an hour or so later, we had to give him his meds, and when we went to give them to him, he wasn't moving too much, he was still breathing, but not moving, and his eyes were completely WIDE open, and almost unseeing... his pupils would expand and contract almost randomly, looking as if he had been staring right into the sun at times (most of the time) and then going to looking as if he had just walked out of a completely pitch black closet. He wouldn't even blink if you put your finger right in front of his eye, which told us instantly that he was quite vividly hallucinating. He also right about then lost control of his body (you can guess what that means..)

in about 10 minutes we had him to the vet, and although we already knew it at that point, she confirmed it.. it was a combination of the Wet and Dry form of FIP, which causes nearly random Neurological problems... and that this won't get better... he may have lived for another week, but he would have to be force fed, and would probably never even move or see anything (new) again... Neither of us could bear the thought of that, knowing that this would only get worse, and that it would pretty much be torture, we decided to have him.. put to sleep :(

while crying, we held him during the whole thing... he purred the entire time, but never made any reference to being able to see anything at all, he could obviously feel us petting him and holding him... although another thing about what he was going through, is that for some reason he wouldn't accept being right-side up.. if we flipped him over to hold him normally, he would start crying out, just like if you flip a cat upside-down when they don't want to be... Cassie (my room-mate) was singing to him the whole time, and e held him crying for a couple minutes after the whole thing...

that's the update... Lil'Bit is gone.

-Kitten