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Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
So 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.
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I'm torn apart about this, too, I just don't know what I think. I hate, hate the idea of not doing anything, of letting the tumor just sit there doing god knows what, but the idea of putting her through the surgery, her being hurt and confused and already hating the vet so much, plus the discomfort she'll be in until her paw heals, and the chance that the procedure might kill her...I can't stand the thought of losing her without us there, if there's even the slightest chance of it happening.
I'm not going to be sleeping anytime at all soon, if there's any chance you check this again tonight, or get my messages, so please call, or call as soon as you get them tomorrow, I'll keep my phone by my bed and would rather be woken up than not talk to you. I'm so sorry, again, that my phone was off all day, I never turned it back on after movies this afternoon. -_-
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