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Hopefully this won't be too long winded....talked to the vet a bit more, and I need to go to the hospital tomorrow morning to talk to the vet, find out IF the endoscopy is necessary, if it is, do the surgery, and also they want to place a stomach tube. I assume the kind that she would have forever. And then there's the thing in her lung.Basically, I don't know where to draw the line in terms of care. I want to make sure I'm doing everything I can that would be in my cat's best interests....the thing is, I'm not sure what is best for her. I don't know if it's better to feed her a tiny amount by mouth every 4 hours or get the stomach tube so I can hopefully bypass the broken esophagus and put food right in her belly. I don't know what's better - to let her eat by mouth and be hungry all the time, or get the tube and maybe get more food and thus more nutrition into her (and maybe ward off some of the hunger so she doesn't eat the dogs' food).What should I do? I don't want to prolong my cat's life if she's unhappy (and no, she will not get better. She would need the feeding tube forever), but I don't want to give up on her if she still has a will to live. Are stomach tubes very uncomfortable for cats?