Please pray if you do pray...

In a rush to open a knocked on door (we thought it was an emergency, it
turned out to be an angry neighbor)....I stepped on a sleep sack while
running two ferrets to their cage. Long story short - she had tacky
eyes and gums, was cold, collapsed....I had stepped on her belly,
basically...

I thought she was going to die right there but I gave her more of
her prednisilone, then some pain meds (torb) and let her eat as much
ferrettone as she wanted...then I gave her fluids, and the fluids still
haven't absorbed, she's had the ferrettone run through her already
about an hour or two later, and no blood, she walks but then collapses.
I am hoping she's just sore, and she's on a heating pad on low. She's
got enough strength to leave if she wants to if it's too hot IMO. She's
still not as warm as I would like her to be.

Just a reminder - please, please don't be like me, don't leave things
out that ferrets will sleep in that you might step on. I kept leaving
it this week because it was obvious to me ferrets would go in it, and
I just left it, stepping over it. Well, in the "emergency" I didn't
think, I just stepped. You never know when you might have an emergency
and not think or have an accident so don't do what I did...

I hope she makes it, I'm in an FFZ and there is no vet that will take
her, I've done all the vets would do at this point anyway (fluids,
food, water, warmth). The last emergency I had was a ferret that needed
surgery and I was quoted around 5,000 for them to call a "temp" and
open the ferret up. I called every practice, and none of them would
drop a surgery they had to take this other ferret, and so they gave
the ridiculous temp price. Living here sucks.

So they all offered supportive care. I can do that here. I just wish I
had never let it happen in the first place. I realize there's not much
hope, but who knows. Maybe I'll be the 1% of people who has a miracle
happen.

L

[Posted in FML 6497]