Another Stevie Update
I received a call from the oncologist on Friday regarding Stevie's potential candidacy for a glossectomy.
The news could have been worse, and it could have been better. We're somewhere in the middle. The bottom line is that she recommends the surgery for him, but the bad news is that there is some cancer at the back of his throat in his larynx, so the surgery will only prolong his life a bit, but won't cure him. I'm going forward with the surgery because it will remove the discomfort he's currently in, and she told us that we're probably buying him another year.
I just keep reminding myself that she could have said the cancer was in his bones, or that is was so bad that she recommends putting him down immediately. That makes me grateful at the prospect of having another year with him. And she believes there will be quality of life. One of her own cats has had a glossectomy, and has a feeding tube, she informed me.
So there it is.