Here is where I may seem a bit heartless but where practicality overrules emotion. Roney sounds like he is in deep doo-doo. An overnite at $1000 seems exorbitant, that's as much or more than a human hospital stay might be. If he were mine, I'd try to keep him stabilized and pain free but when you talk about $1000's without a potential cure, I'd start thinking along other lines. I don't have that kind of money to lay out on an ongoing basis and most likely neither does your daughter.