.:Wednesday, September 12, 2007:.
Bad News
| The vet called today to let us know that the test for his pancreas came back today. The pancreas looks great! Why is that bad news then? We are out of options. It was a long shot and we knew that. Now, we are left with deciding whether we want to dish out $500 or more to determine whether it is intestinal cancer of some sort or just leave it be. Either way, there's really nothing left for us to do for him at this point. Even if it is some form or cancer and we could afford chemotherapy for him, it really wouldn't give him that much more time in life. I think I hurt the vets feelings a bit today unintentionally. She kept stating that she knew that we just "found this dog" that seems to be the bottomless pit and she would understand us stopping at this point with the money dropping on him. I know she didn't mean it in mean way any of the times that she said it, but I snapped after the about the 4th time she said it trying to comfort me with, "yeah, we found him, but that doesn't mean that he isn't an important part of our family." She immediately fixed (or attempted to fix) what she had said and I apologized for snapping. At that point, there was no holding back the tears. For now, she is going to talk to the specialist in the next day or two in OKC to see if he/she has any further recommendations or if a scope is even an option at this point (the $500 thing) and will call me back when she finds something out. I'm pretty sure that Jeff and I have decided though that we can't keep spending all of this money on him if we can't do anything to save his life no matter what we spend on him! I'm not sure that I'm up for what I'm certain is going to be happening. |
