The family of magician Paul Daniels have said they are regarding every day with the terminally ill TV legend as a bonus.
The 77-year-old announced last month that he had an incurable brain tumour and is spending his final days at home surrounded by his family.
"There's no treatment which can help him. Doctors haven't said how many weeks or months he might have - and we haven't asked," his magician son Martin told British newspaper The Sunday Mirror.
"He knows things are not in his hands now and we are living in the knowledge every day is a bonus. It is unbearably difficult. He has said before when 'It's your time it's your time' and that's how he is trying to face up to things."
Paul Daniels and wife Debbie McGee
Today his wife, Debbie McGee, thanked fans for their good wishes in the wake of his recent diagnosis.
McGee wrote on Twitter: "I wish I could answer all your wonderful messages individually but there are so many. They are all appreciated so much. Paul and I had no (idea) of how people felt. Truly amazing. Thank you."
I wish I could answer all your wonderful messages individually but there are so many. They are all appreciated so much. Paul and I had no
— Debbie McGee (@thedebbiemcgee) March 7, 2016
Cont: of how people felt. Truly amazing. THANK YOU
— Debbie McGee (@thedebbiemcgee) March 7, 2016
Before his diagnosis, Paul Daniels had fallen at home and was taken to hospital with a suspected stroke. Doctors later told him he had a "rapidly growing" brain tumour.
As tests were being carried out, Martin Daniels said his father walked around the hospital trying to cheer up the other patients.
"He went 'round the beds saying hello, making jokes. He sat at the nurses' stations. He was doing a little ditty by the door to the ward saying, 'Roll up, roll up, visiting time is over folks'."
