I posted this to FHL without any response so I'm hoping someone here can
help?
 
At our shelter, we have a little boy who had adrenal surgery LAST
Wednesday.  He was a right gland and a small lobe of his liver had to
be removed.  We got the entire right out without having to ligate.
 
Before going to surgery, we only had "Norbit" for about a week.  His
symptoms were hair loss, mounting (sexual behaviour) and spot peeing.
We had an opportunity to have VERY cost effective surgeries done a week
later so Norbit went under the knife.
 
3 days after surgery, I noticed what I thought was watered down blood
coming from his penis.  I rubbed it off with my finger and squeezed and
normal urine came out.  I thought he may have been licking himself and
got a little raw and didn't think much about it (BAD shelter mom!!!).
 
The following day he went into foster.  He was very playful and
talkative.  The next evening, his foster dad called me to let me know
that Norbit kept backing into corners to try to pee but couldn't.  He
was very weak and not eating/drinking.  We've seen this many times
before pre-surgery, but never post surgery.  We called around to find
an open 'ferret vet' and found a new one not too far away.
 
The vet was unable to catheterize him so under anesthetic, drained his
bladder with a needle.  It was BRIGHT red with blood mixed with urine.
X-rays showed no stones and no crystals could be seen in the urine
sample.  Once Norbit was given an IV for 2 days, along with propecia, he
eat, drank and peed normally without blood.  He was released from the
vet's on Tuesday evening.
 
This brings us to Thursday.  By 7am, Norbit was not eating, not drinking,
was weak and again couldn't pee.  We brought him back to a vet who put
him on another IV.  Only hours later, he was eating, drinking and peeing
(no blood) yet his prostate doesn't seem to be that enlarged.  (about 1
1/2 cms)
 
Any advice?  As I said, we've only seen this pre-surgery, never post
except with an Addison's kid who we could never sort out (even with
multiple drug therapies and surgeries).
 
I also believe this kid to have coetaneous lymphoma as well.
 
Miss Randy Melanie Belair
President
The Ferret Aid Society
<http://www.ferretaid.org/>
 
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[Posted in FML issue 5312]