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Chase
I never got around to updating on Chase here. I scheduled him for an echocardiogram since the vet thought he was going into heart failure. His heart, it turns out, is fine. However, she went on to look at his abdomen upon seeing the heart was okay, and found other problems. It is almost certain that Chase has lymphoma (cancer, for anyone that may not know what it is). Neither vet advises pursuing chemo with the shape he is in, and I probably couldn't find a way to afford it anyway, unfortunately. We are still having a lot of trouble getting him to eat, though the latest effort, diazapem (valium) is at least getting some response out of him. He's letting me feed him bits of food by putting it on my finger, then in his mouth. I've gotten a can of food into him over two days. He needs more than that, but considering he has eaten almost nothing for a week and very little for awhile before that, I'm afraid of overdoing it and giving him more than his body is ready to handle. I hate to say it, but I'm honestly not sure if the effort is worth it. He is going to die as the cancer spreads, and the most he can hope for is probably a couple of months. From what I've read, 6-8 weeks is about average after diagnosis without treatment. But my family isn't ready to let him go.