The waiting is over...

[cabbage]

...I received my rejection email from ESA today, though they do point me in the direction of their other careers. It shouldn't come as any great surprise that in cutting down from 8000-odd applicants to 700-1000 (the figure quoted for the next stage) they have to adopt a fairly strict regime. It's a disappointment but I have the good fortune to

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[larissa_00]

*cat sympathy*
Was it the dreaded renal failure, curse of elderly felines?

[cabbage]

No, it was bronchial cancer but it was spreading quite rapidly and he had secondary tumours on his toe, eyelid (which started bleeding badly on Saturday but they managed to control it) and the back of his neck. The problem on Sunday was that there was also one in his mouth that started bleeding and wouldn't stop :(

[larissa_00]

Poor guy :-((
Sympathy to cally_tmk and Calligula.

[holmesgirl]

My sympathies! We lost our dog at the beginning of the year.