Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Feb. 25th, 2009 07:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ebonlockSo the latest Kage update, after a long talk with the vet, comes down to the following decision:
1) Do surgery on Kage's paw removing the tumor and a good portion of her paw as well. Best case scenario she comes through the surgery fine and heals well over the next two months with no complications...despite the fact that she doesn't have sufficient skin in the area to cover the wound so it would remain open the whole time.
Worst case scenario the anesthesia either does her in immediately or finishes off her kidneys and she dies within the next few weeks.
2) Do nothing for the time being with the hope that the tumor she's currently got doesn't spread (and it doesn't appear to have done so yet). Unfortunately it's malignant and aggressive and even if it's removed will likely return in the future. On the plus side this option means she gets to be mostly comfortable for the remainder of her life. On the downside that life might only be a few more months at best.
The first option is far and away the riskier and it means putting her through a rather nasty surgery and months of bandaging, medication and vet visits which she will hate with a passion. But, it also means that if she survives she's got an actual chance of being ok for months, and maybe even a year. It could buy her more time. Maybe.
The other option means accepting that she's going to die and just choosing to make that death as stress-free and comfortable as possible.
I have until tomorrow to figure out what I want to do. I tried calling![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aelfsciene but her phone's going directly to voice mail so she may not even get the message by tomorrow, which leaves it up to me.
1) Do surgery on Kage's paw removing the tumor and a good portion of her paw as well. Best case scenario she comes through the surgery fine and heals well over the next two months with no complications...despite the fact that she doesn't have sufficient skin in the area to cover the wound so it would remain open the whole time.
Worst case scenario the anesthesia either does her in immediately or finishes off her kidneys and she dies within the next few weeks.
2) Do nothing for the time being with the hope that the tumor she's currently got doesn't spread (and it doesn't appear to have done so yet). Unfortunately it's malignant and aggressive and even if it's removed will likely return in the future. On the plus side this option means she gets to be mostly comfortable for the remainder of her life. On the downside that life might only be a few more months at best.
The first option is far and away the riskier and it means putting her through a rather nasty surgery and months of bandaging, medication and vet visits which she will hate with a passion. But, it also means that if she survives she's got an actual chance of being ok for months, and maybe even a year. It could buy her more time. Maybe.
The other option means accepting that she's going to die and just choosing to make that death as stress-free and comfortable as possible.
I have until tomorrow to figure out what I want to do. I tried calling
aelfsciene but her phone's going directly to voice mail so she may not even get the message by tomorrow, which leaves it up to me.
