Thank you. We are taking it one day at a time, and trying to be patient with each other and with our own grieving process. It's less gut wrenching moving out of his apartment than it was back when we cleared out his and my grandma's former house that they had lived in for 40 or 50 years.
With Blinkin, I'm praying the tumor grows slowly. I don't think we will intervene surgically; I had a rat's tumor removed when I was a kid, and it came right back. Surgery is expensive and painful, and Blinkin and Boo have been healthy, but are old for rats at nearly 2 years. The females are so prone to benign but quick growing mammary cysts. I hope we can keep her comfortable and mobile for a while, and help her cranky sister Boo either accept a friend, or spend a lot of time with her as a single rat.
