Hi all,
For those of you who know me, you know i rarely ask for support, I'm the one usually giving it. On wed, our dear 11 year old deaf cat Mabel, adopted on vacation 1500 miles from home last march, was diagnosed with a very rare liver/bile duct cancer called Cholangio Carcinoma via liver biopsy. This biopsy was done while her gall bladder was being removed for an intractable gall bladder and duct infection that she's had since the end of the summer. We had a consult with an oncologist today (thankfully we have great insurance on her (Petplan, look at www.petinsurancereview.com) and he confirmed what we suspected, her time is short, although she feels ok at the moment, just tired.
She has at most a few months, there aren't really and good treatment options, there is one type of chemo that has at best a 10-20% chance of giving her a couple more months, a route I think we're not going to take.
We got her out of a shelter where she had lived for 2 years, a place she would have died in if we hadn't taken her. She's the sweetest cat, super gentle, and she blossomed once we got her home, became playful and super happy, and we are going to love on her until its time, and when the time comes we will not let her suffer and we will let her go. We will not extend her life one day to make her suffer, its all dew drops and every favorite food she loves, until we run out of time.
Thank you for letting me share this here, i know so many of you understand. Some pics of her below.
Every cat deserves a home, even 10 year old deaf ones, so the next time you adopt a cat, consider the older ones who get passed by....
This last photo below was from the shelter.
Thanks also to @Artiemom
for all the support by PM's
For those of you who know me, you know i rarely ask for support, I'm the one usually giving it. On wed, our dear 11 year old deaf cat Mabel, adopted on vacation 1500 miles from home last march, was diagnosed with a very rare liver/bile duct cancer called Cholangio Carcinoma via liver biopsy. This biopsy was done while her gall bladder was being removed for an intractable gall bladder and duct infection that she's had since the end of the summer. We had a consult with an oncologist today (thankfully we have great insurance on her (Petplan, look at www.petinsurancereview.com) and he confirmed what we suspected, her time is short, although she feels ok at the moment, just tired.
She has at most a few months, there aren't really and good treatment options, there is one type of chemo that has at best a 10-20% chance of giving her a couple more months, a route I think we're not going to take.
We got her out of a shelter where she had lived for 2 years, a place she would have died in if we hadn't taken her. She's the sweetest cat, super gentle, and she blossomed once we got her home, became playful and super happy, and we are going to love on her until its time, and when the time comes we will not let her suffer and we will let her go. We will not extend her life one day to make her suffer, its all dew drops and every favorite food she loves, until we run out of time.
Thank you for letting me share this here, i know so many of you understand. Some pics of her below.
Every cat deserves a home, even 10 year old deaf ones, so the next time you adopt a cat, consider the older ones who get passed by....
This last photo below was from the shelter.
Thanks also to @Artiemom
for all the support by PM's