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Jan. 21st, 2022 02:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tungolGracie's new MRI showed that her cancer isn't operable any longer, so surgery is aborted. She's coming home soon, and we'll just love her for however long she has left. The biggest concern right now is that the tumor could start affecting her front motor control, at which point we won't be able to maintain quality of life for her anymore and will need to let her go.
It's been about three months since her initial diagnosis, which by all accounts is pretty good for this kind of cancer. We may not have much longer to go.
I'm so broken up about it right now, but I'm glad we tried and now we know. I'm upset that she had to have another stressful trip to the hospital in order for us to find out that we couldn't attempt surgery anymore.
It'll be good to have her back home.
This whole process has been really hard on Reischa too. A lot of disrupted routines, and the shift in how much attention was being paid to each of them has her unsettled. She and Gracie are both pretty nonconfrontational, so they've gotten along well over the years, but they've never become friends and always been a little nervous around each other.
A lot of that has been because Gracie just... doesn't speak cat. We're pretty sure she was taken from her mother too young, and never learned social queues. Reischa makes friendly overtures when she's in a particularly good mood - at mealtimes, or when one of us comes home after being away for a while. Gracie's reactions to being e.g. groomed or rubbed on are generally confused, and generally tolerant to mildly defensive. Which of course makes Reischa feel nervous because her friendly gestures were met with hostility.
Anyway, one silver lining that we're hoping for coming out of all this is for Reischa to feel less nervous and more comfortable once she's a single cat. It's a pretty crappy silver lining, but we're pretty sure that she'll really like being the only cat. We'll take what silver linings we can get.
It's been about three months since her initial diagnosis, which by all accounts is pretty good for this kind of cancer. We may not have much longer to go.
I'm so broken up about it right now, but I'm glad we tried and now we know. I'm upset that she had to have another stressful trip to the hospital in order for us to find out that we couldn't attempt surgery anymore.
It'll be good to have her back home.
This whole process has been really hard on Reischa too. A lot of disrupted routines, and the shift in how much attention was being paid to each of them has her unsettled. She and Gracie are both pretty nonconfrontational, so they've gotten along well over the years, but they've never become friends and always been a little nervous around each other.
A lot of that has been because Gracie just... doesn't speak cat. We're pretty sure she was taken from her mother too young, and never learned social queues. Reischa makes friendly overtures when she's in a particularly good mood - at mealtimes, or when one of us comes home after being away for a while. Gracie's reactions to being e.g. groomed or rubbed on are generally confused, and generally tolerant to mildly defensive. Which of course makes Reischa feel nervous because her friendly gestures were met with hostility.
Anyway, one silver lining that we're hoping for coming out of all this is for Reischa to feel less nervous and more comfortable once she's a single cat. It's a pretty crappy silver lining, but we're pretty sure that she'll really like being the only cat. We'll take what silver linings we can get.
