7yo Siamese that I got spayed when I adopted her at 3. A little over a month ago our vet told us the dreaded news - mammary cancer, many tumors - some huge - months left. He said even with surgery, he is pretty sure they would grow back quickly or other parts of her body as it’s so far along and spread so much already. Since she had less than a year with or without surgery, we made the hard decision not to do surgery and to love on her as much as possible. The past week or two she has been hiding in strange spots she never has before, and also rarely sleeps with us in bed (used to EVERY night for 4 years straight). However she’s still eating and acting her normal self besides that, just more distant. However before when she had UTI’s she gave no indication she was in pain either, she is very good at hiding it.
And today I was petting her and felt a new lump on her thigh, and took a look at her biggest tumor (ping pong ball sized) and it’s changed rapidly over the past few days. It’s now bright red and nearly bursting - it looks extremely painful. It’s bulging so much I can’t even see her fur on it. I am afraid it is time. I don’t want her to suffer through the tumor bursting and then bleeding and more pain and then we would be forced to put her down while she’s in excruciating pain and oozing... or until they get too big for her lungs.
I have an appointment today at 3:15 to put my baby to sleep... someone just please tell me this is okay and I’m not failing her. I keep second guessing my decision.
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