07-12-2023, 01:32 PM
(07-12-2023, 11:58 AM)ochocincos Wrote: While true, prepare to be criticized for sharing your opinion.
My wife and I found out one of our dogs in January 2022 (two days after the Bengals beat the Titans in the playoffs actually) had carcinoma cancer.
The vet said it wasn't curable or removable, but we could try some different chemo options to try to prolong my dog's life.
The chemo's goal was to slow the growth as much as possible, as there was no way to remove it.
Had we not tried, the vet's prognosis was probably just a few weeks to live.
We made the decision to try the chemo route, and it prolonged his life by just over 6 months, but it was not cheap.
At the end of it all, my wife and I felt we made the right decision, as my dog was able to act normal for pretty much every remaining day he had and he got to live (much) longer than had we not made that decision. If you try to equate that 6 months to dog years, he essentially got another 3-4 years of life.
Holic - I just donated to ya, bud. Hope your family gets to spend as much time with Roman as possible. Feel free to message me directly if you wanna talk about any of this, as I just went through this a year ago.
Thank you for sharing this ocho, and I might take you up on messaging.
The reason we decided to go the route of chemo, following the splenectomy, is because of how optimistic the specialists seemed to be that it would give him not only 'at least' a year (possibly more) post chemo, but that his quality of life should be pretty good during that time. We got a second opinion before making the decision, and they felt good about going that route as well.
So, at that point, we felt confident we were making the right decision. If they hadn't been so optimistic or the outlook would involve suffering, we would have made a much different decision.
