InsaneJournal

Current mood:

worried

Poor Skit
Skitter has a tumor on her belly, probably a mammory tumor. I noticed it on .. Friday night, and it's already noticeably larger. I took her to the vet today, but I just got the expected response. Most likely a tumor, too large for surgery to stand any significant chance of being helpful (though it probably wouldn't be too useful either way, mouse mammory tumors have a big tendency to be malignant and recurring). He gave me an antibiotic in case some of the size is actually infection, but after the big fight to get any remotely near her mouth tonight, I'm not sure I'll bother trying that again. The major stress it causes probably isn't worth it when the medicine isn't even likely to make a difference. So.. basically, I'm left with keeping her as happy as possible until it starts to affect her too much, then having her put down.

I'm worried about Spook, as well. Just about every time I've had one of a pair die, the second tries to follow. Hopefully she'll be okay. These two are very close. I took both to the vet so that they wouldn't get upset.