Mandon
Senior Member
Hey guys. So a little over two months ago I had a potentially malignant mammary tumor removed from Momo and the vet told me it would probably come back. The surgery was on May 5th this year and recently I've noticed a new tumor on her mammary line very similar in shape to the one she had removed... in that it had an asymmetrical shape. I have no reason not to believe that this is the return of the very tumour I had removed and it seems to me that it removes all doubt that the lump was malignant.
I really want Momo to stay with me as long as I can but the surgery only kept the tumour away for two months... that's not a lot of time and the surgery was extremely expensive since my vet overcharges a lot for the simplest of procedures... I'm not sure I can afford to keep having it removed every two months if it's just going to keep coming back.
I'm not looking for validation on a decision I've already made.. I haven't made any decision yet, and the death of my rat Pepper is still fresh in my mind.. so I'm exceptionally determined to do everything I can to keep my babies healthy and alive. But this situation scares me.. because I'm worried that there's nothing I can do. For anybody that's gone through this before, what can you gather based on what I've said? Does it seem likely that the tumor will return, and is it really worth removing them if they'll keep popping up? I don't want to keep putting Momo through surgery if it accomplishes nothing...
I really want Momo to stay with me as long as I can but the surgery only kept the tumour away for two months... that's not a lot of time and the surgery was extremely expensive since my vet overcharges a lot for the simplest of procedures... I'm not sure I can afford to keep having it removed every two months if it's just going to keep coming back.
I'm not looking for validation on a decision I've already made.. I haven't made any decision yet, and the death of my rat Pepper is still fresh in my mind.. so I'm exceptionally determined to do everything I can to keep my babies healthy and alive. But this situation scares me.. because I'm worried that there's nothing I can do. For anybody that's gone through this before, what can you gather based on what I've said? Does it seem likely that the tumor will return, and is it really worth removing them if they'll keep popping up? I don't want to keep putting Momo through surgery if it accomplishes nothing...