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Date: | Fri, 15 Sep 1995 11:23:38 -0500 |
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Hello fuzzies & friends! I'm Connie and my (one & only) ferret is K.C. ,
this was named for mine and my roomates initials. Anyway I just discovered
FML and how to use the computer and I wanted to say to Scott & little
Hannah, I know what you're going thru. K.C. had the same problem. The
vets here in N.E. La. look at ferrets as life from another planet. I
noticed K.C.'s lethargia and then he quit food and H2o . He went from 3.5
lbs to 1.5 in a couple of days! I was probably paranoid, but it all came on
after a visit to his 2 ferret friends who had both been doing the green poop
and vomiting gig. Then I didn't know about ECE. I even spoke with Judy
Bell of MFs and she thought they had coccxyidiosis (sp) . Has hannah been
around sick fuzzies? I took K.C. to 3 vets in 1 day $$$$! I was
desparate! The one that worked put him on amoxicillin, a steroid to help
his energy come back, but don't let her play, and that hi-protein soft cat
food (ps) maybe was the name of it ,I forget. Plus I tried to force
pedialite replacement drink down him witha syringe 10cc. All this worked
after a week or so. I had a fit weening him off the soft yummie food. He
was so weak I had hand fed him. During all this the xrays revealed a lump
on his tail near his last sacral vertebrae. The 3 vets all said chondroma!
The lesion had infiltrated two caudal vertebrae completely . All vets said
euthanize K.C. as chondroma is a fast metastizing (spreading) bone cancer.
Removing the tail they said would be futile. Working in surgery and the lab
I'm hard headed and I called the pathologist in TX. who read the Bx. My
old , (fired) vet had misquoted the diagnosis! If I had accepted this K.C.
would be in the pet cemetary now. What he had was a Cordoma which is a
nonaggressive lesion and a cancer of the notocord remnant. Well K.C. no
longer has his tail. His booty looks like a bears with a little stump!
He's 6 months out from his cancer, the vet whom I fired gave him 2-3 months.
Why do Vet. colleges not require more pathology on ferrets for their
students, Knowing how popular ferrets are now . Only my med. training and
stubborness saved K.C's life. Most people would not tell their vets what to
do . Well I said all this to say this Scott DON'T GIVE UP. Try amoxi.
steroids and hi protein feed from the vet. Good luck . Please excuse the
length of this letter.
Connie and my tailess weenierat!
[Posted in FML issue 1316]
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