What a sweetheart. I hope you have many more good days with Lola. :rub:
Thanks everybody!
Beautiful baby! Hoping you have many more days. So very hard to say good bye. There's a page that talks about the life scale if you Google it. I think it's called Life scale? It sounds like she has beat the odds several times!
This morning Lola wasn't too keen to take the syringe, but she still likes to follow me around, curl on my lap and explore the house. She wanted to get out in the garden a few minutes ago but it's pouring rain today.You will know when it's time. She will probably stop taking the syringe. Kirsten's last day was very peaceful. She even sat on my lap,
used the litter box, and purred. She then went into her cabinet on the soft cotton shirts that smell like Gain. I checked on her several
times. She was only in there about 4 hours before she passed but i was peaceful,
mia
I'm so sorry to read about your situation, I do hope you won't have to pass through another surgery!It might help to find a stray that needs a home. It will not erase the passing, it will just give another animal a chance and in time you might come to have another best friend.
There is a point at which the quality of life is affected. I am a survivor of colon cancer. My mom had it and she had a non reversible surgery. Were mine to come back, I already know I will not have that surgery. May God be with you both!
In my case no surgery is possible unless we remove part or the whole jaw and that it's not life for anybody!A friend of mine had a 10 year old golden retriever -- a big one -- that had cancer. He was told by two vets that surgery wouldn't save the dog, and that at 10 years of age and being a big dog, he was very old. A third vet said it was possible to save him, the surgery was performed, and the dog lived to 14!
In a different situation, I had a cat with terminal heart disease who lived 16 months after we saved his life from a thrown clot. We were told just euthanize him the condition is terminal - we said hell no we're going to do whatever we can for him. Meds eventually had less and less effect, and I hate to say that we waited a day too long to euthanize him. I know he was suffering, really drowning, before the vet euthanized him at home. Really wish it had been done at least 12 hours before, that would have been the perfect balance of him living as long as possible without undue suffering.
Just know going into whatever you decide to do or not do, you don't get any take-backs.
Foxxycat, thanks for the link to Simon's story, I have read the first page and the last ones when Simon wento to the Rainbow Bridge.
What a courageous soul you are. Hats off to you. Hoping that you get a bit more time with your baby. Someone else on here had a cat with jaw cancer. They did a posting every week about what they did.
http://www.thecatsite.com/t/316100/...ill-loved-one-i-share-with-you-simons-journey
I think you can find some information about how they managed. Simon loved life and lived quite a bit with his condition. Maybe there's some help to ease feedings and other things.
Did they send you home with any pain meds for her mouth? Simon was on pain meds and they seemed to help. I truly hope you guys can at least get a few weeks/months or however long is left to treasure each other.
You don't know, or maybe you do know, how much did I hope it was just an infection.
You mention that the area is warm and hard to touch-did they consider it could be infection? Does it smell foul? Abscess can give off a foul odor and be hot to the touch. Just asking incase this is what it is. Sometimes it's not unusual for an infection to be going on as well as a tumor. There are a few options they can try. The meds have to be fed orally for most of them. Or the one shot that works for 2 weeks. Convenia. I don't know if you guys have this in Italy. Convenia works on skin infection types and may help. Clavamox is a broad spectrum antibiotic that could also be appropriate if the vet determines there could be infection going on. Hoping you guys have some good quality days left.
Mia, I think that the itch is due to the swelling of her chin and it comes from the inside of her tissue. Any med given on the outside wouldn't solve the problem that is deeper in her skin.
Antonia,
If you feel she is itching you could give her some Diphenhydramine, Benadryl, It is an over the counter med for allergies.
My vet prescribed it for my cats when they had colds and it is widely used here in the US in cats and dogs for itching
due to skin probs. For cats you would need to use the liquid. Maybe speak to vet about the dosage.
Hugs,
Mia
@2Cats4everLoved Hi Honey, I gave them Simon's thread-could you help answer questions?You don't know, or maybe you do know, how much did I hope it was just an infection.
You mention that the area is warm and hard to touch-did they consider it could be infection? Does it smell foul? Abscess can give off a foul odor and be hot to the touch. Just asking incase this is what it is. Sometimes it's not unusual for an infection to be going on as well as a tumor. There are a few options they can try. The meds have to be fed orally for most of them. Or the one shot that works for 2 weeks. Convenia. I don't know if you guys have this in Italy. Convenia works on skin infection types and may help. Clavamox is a broad spectrum antibiotic that could also be appropriate if the vet determines there could be infection going on. Hoping you guys have some good quality days left.
When I realized of what she had in her mouth it was around mid-September 2016. One morning I woke up and found a few drops of blood into the water bowl. Because at an earlier veterinary visit they told me that Lola could have some gingivitis, I thought that she had lost a tooth and that her gums were bleeding. So I checked into her mouth and saw a lump under her tongue. I pushed her into the carrier and ran to the clinic, it was 7 am. The two doctors at the clinic tried to reassure me, it certainly wasn't what I feared, they had seen this thing before and managed it no problem. According to them it was just a glossitis, an infection of the tongue or the nearby tissues, so they gave us a prescritpion for ten days of Clyndamicin. After a week or ten days without any improvement I went back to the vets and they told me that probably it was a very bad infection and it needed a week more of antibiotics. It was early October when a biopsy was done and the lab sent me back a report where it was cancer without the least doubt.
We went to a visit with a cancer doctor that sent us to the only place in Italy where they do radiation therapy for animals. It's a place that I know well, unfortunately, because we went there 5 years before for a cancer in her nose. The cancer has been treated with chemo and radiations. They told me that in the best scenario we should have had 8-12 months past the treatment.
The smell out of her mouth is sometimes bad, impossible to stand, sometimes it's just a bit worse than usual cat breath. In the last two or three days it's less bad, last week it was impossible to resist.
We do have Convenia in Italy, she has had three shots so far, the first one on Feb 1, the second on Feb 13 (when part of her tongue was removed because it was in necrosis) and the last one on last Wednesday.
I think that if it wasn't for the antibiotic, the necrosis of the consequences of it would have been much worse.
I have read some more pages in the thread of Simon's Story. There's one thing that reminds me of the last hours. This morning Lola was weak on her back legs, she was limping and losing her balance. Every now and then she was shaking her right back leg as if it was numb. She was better later on.
Is it a sign? What is the cause that had Simon's legs get weak? Does cancer in the mouth affect back legs?