Should I just right click the tx and use "abandon transaction"? Or try resending the same tx?
If your transaction hasn't been broadcasted anywhere then yes. You should abandon it. Let me throw a tip; after you enter your paying address and click “Pay”, click on “Advanced” --> “Finalize” --> “Export”.
After you've copied your signed transaction, open
blockchair.com/broadcast and broadcast it from there.
Generally, Dogecoin is an abandoned project, I'm surprised you accomplished on syncing your node. To me, it was never syncing. (1kbs/sec ↓)
Thanks, I wanted to be sure before I did anything. Abandon transaction worked fine and immediately restored the coins to my wallet.
The node had been synced a lot in the past, so I probably had a lot of good nodes. It didn't take that long to reindex either, only a day on a ssd.