Wow -- that truly stinks.
I've no experience with this.
May she live out the rest of whatever time she has left in peace and
comfort, surrounded with love! Hig hugs to you.
You never know -- she could last a while....
=^..^= Terri, Salome', Siggie the Tomato Vampire, Guinevere, Sammi, and 5
furangels: RuthieGirl, Samantha, Arielle, Gareth and Alec =^..^=
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 1:12
PM
Subject: Lucky
Dear Friends,
Lucky's biopsy came back last night (while I was at the vet with Wolf!)
and the mass is cancer; fibrosarcoma of the mammary gland. Apparently it
is a rather uncommon kind of cancer for that area; adenocarinoma is more
common.
They estimate that Lucky has +/- about a year of (probably) feeling well
and chemotherapy is not a good option for this kind of cancer and Wendy feels
the effects of radiation are so devastating that she would not use it for one
of her own cats.
Lucky absolutely hates going to the vet, so I have to weigh that against
any potential treatment. I did ask Wendy to speak with an oncologist and
see if anything else could be recommended for treatment. The closest
veterinary oncologist to me is 1.5 hours away; that would be a 3 hour round
trip for any treatment and it might not buy her much time.
I'm just devastated and feel so indecisive. I am sort of leaning
towards trying to strengthen her own immune system through supplements and
letting her live out her time in the sunbeams that she loves.
Does anyone else have experience with mammary cancer?
Sometimes everything just sucks.
Thanks for listening everyone.
Love, Julie
"I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the
more entitled it is
to protection by man from the cruelty of man. "
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged
by
the way its animals are treated."
Mohandas Gandhi
(1869-1948)
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