Very bad day

We took Delirium to the vet today. Her mammary tumor grew so quickly that the blood supply couldn't keep up with the demand and the whole thing, which was about as big as a golf ball, necrosed, abscessed and burst. She's got this awful hole with dead edges which bleeds every now and then.

We could spend a few hundred bucks getting it removed but since our doctor says he wouldn't put her through it if she were his I don't think we will. He says it's almost certainly malignant and she would go through the same thing with a new growth very soon. In fact she already has a new tumor, up on her chest, between her front paws that sprang up just yesterday and is already bigger than pea sized. It's all depressing and awful.

We've got her on antibiotics to keep from going septic and we're going to try and give her a couple more weeks. We've got an appointment on the eighth for the cats' annual checkup and we'll bring her back then and see how she's doing. If she stops eating, looks awful or gets lethargic we may have to put her to sleep sooner but for right now she's doing surprisingly well. He said the wound is about as annoying as an infected mosquito bite would be to us, so my take is it's certainly a pain but we wouldn't put a cancer patient down for that so we'll see how she does.