| Re: Ethical Issue: Cancer Treatment Decisions I just found this topic and wanted to say my girl was diagnosed with fibrosarcoma in her nose at age 3.When the Dr. told me what it was, a grape sized growth, I said let me go in and say good-bye and we'll let her go. I just knew it was going to be bad. But he convinced me to try surgery, through her palate they snipped the thing and sewed her mouth. When labs came through the vet pushed me to take her to Boston for radical surgery -they would have to rebuild the roof of her mouth, and use chemo or radiation or both. Her expected time left on earth, maybe 1 year. I asked how long without the surgery? --- 6 weeks. I took the 6 weeks. She ate like a pig, ran the beaches every day and slept like a baby. The day she had trouble breathing again I called a vet she didn't know to come to my house. It was never the money - I would have found it. It was her - always and only about her. I learned something from her while watching her run her butt of on the beach - she didn't know she was sick or dying - it was me suffering. They live in the moment. We can only do what we best know how to do for them and it is a very personal choice and no one should be criticized for their choice.
Webangel2b I wish you strength for this journey ahead and I hope for the best for you both. |