I have no experience with that but I fully understand how you feel. I would check out ALL options and weigh them all, research online as much as possiable to learn all I could keeping in mind quality of life verses quanity. If he could live a normal happy life after having that surgery and you can afford it, and are prepared for the after care and make my decision from there.

Questions I'd have would be how many of these surgeries has the vet doing it already done.. What the outcomes were, how did the cat do afterwards and such as that. Even try to find other cat owners who has been through this (as you are doing here)..

Start here if you haven't already.. http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=...op&fr=chr-tyc8

read here.. read on down to what others say.. http://www.catster.com/answers/quest...olectomy-18561