Email to my mom. We all need our moms.

So I don't have to keep saying it:

Yeah. The sore on her foot is a tumor called plasmacytoma. It is usually benign, except when it isn’t. Because of some other symptoms, the vet and the pathologist suspect she also has an internal cancer, possibly a mast cell carcinoma. The only treatment for the foot is amputation, and I’m not going to put her or myself through that at her age, especially if she has another cancer. I’m just going to keep her comfortable and love her until it’s time for her to go. She isn’t eating and she is drinking a lot of water, so I think it won’t be long. I’m sad, but I am at peace with it. She packed a lot of love into the last 9+ years. I love you.

The symptoms we were concerned about were extreme paleness in her gums and a general weakness, and also some fairly serious bleeding when they changed her dressing. Also notable was that she had not come upstairs to sleep on Tuesday or Wednesday.

They kept her all day at the vet yesterday, and she seemed to feel better last night, so I brought her home. She refused her antibiotics, cream cheese and Funyuns and all, but she did come upstairs to sleep. This morning she reluctantly accepted the cream cheese/Funyun/med combo.

When I got home tonight, she had still not eaten the food I put in the bowl on Wednesday night, so I fixed her some chicken and rice with chicken stock, and she ate that and seems to be more alert. I had to stick chicken (and Funyuns) to the cream cheese to get her to take it.

If I have to buy steak, I will. Since she can't read, I feel safe posting this.