I do know that the surgery has benefited many animals successfully but I am hesitant to do it myself. He hasn't had the surgery because he was diagnosed at the age of 5 years old (he will be 7 in January now) and they determined that by X-rays his area of the disease was so small it was contained and controlled by his diet and medication and if I were to for any reason have him opened up for surgery he would run a much more serious risk of the disease spreading from that spot to the entire liver and they told me that greatly reduced his survival chances. I made the informed decision to not put him through a surgery that would cost thousands of dollars and could make him worse or kill him faster if there was the tiniest chance he could be better off without it and he only has a few bad days and moments so far so I am hoping I made a good choice in doing that! Any time we have to make these types of decisions about our babies it is both hard and scary to do isn't it! I want to do right by him and save him but I never know if I am choosing the right thing! I keep telling myself that I am when he gets better though so I am praying this time he fully recovers from everything as he has done before! Right now he is back home with me but a little sluggish and twitchy and I am hoping that is just from him having just had all the treatments and IV fluids at the vet the last 2 days! I still don't think I'll be getting much sleep this weekend until I am 100% sure he is ok and back to normal again and I know I'll be doing a lot of praying here! No local vets are open through the weekend so I have to get him through the next few days if there are anymore issues here... Wish me luck! |