The bones - many said I must have cooked it with too little water. I
will try once more and if that doesn't work I will slow cook the
chicken like some suggested, first. Lucy had her x-rays and she has no
bone bits stuck inside her. I just wanted to make absolutely certain.

As for the paralyzed ferret - the ferret vet I usually use was in and
he looked at the x-rays. He says Blinky doesn't have dislocated hips,
but they are arthritic. He says 2 of her discs basically are "gone"
since she fell. I do not know if he means ruptured. He said that in
time she may walk again.

I am seeing her pull her feet in - the legs are folded in, she just
pulls them up but they don't move the right way. Almost like she can
move the thigh part but not the feet. I don't think she moves her
tail. She drags them behind her when she wants to move. I have her
restricted...she wants to run around and explore. I also have her on
pee pads and learned to express her bladder. She is leaking urine
though her bladder isn't anywhere near full. She is eating her baby
food soup and taking meds.

I wonder what people do in these situations - I read about so many
people who have disabled ferrets. I have to wash her every time she
is soaked with urine, so I wonder what is a good way to dry her more
efficiently down there. A regular towel just isn't cutting it.

Now that I know it's actually a spinal injury my hopes for her walking
again, despite the vet telling me she might, are kind of dashed. I will
go through all the emails tomorrow for the wheelchairs everyone sent
me. If she has to stay in a wheelchair I have no clue how she is going
to adjust - she loved climbing, running through the tube, hiding her
toys, it just makes me cry. I always say as long as they're eating,
drinking, pooping, peeing and they want to hide things and do their
routine, then they have quality of life, but seeing one want to do
things they can't is breaking my heart. I have dealt with a lot of
stuff but not a paralyzed one before (well, not a possibly permanent
spinal injury one).

On a probably selfish side note this happened at a horrible time - I
basically lost my 4.0 today since I flunked my chem exam (left halfway
through because her 2nd appointment with our regular doctor was today,
and the doctor was *only* there today. Normally, who cares - but now
transferring to the only college I could afford is probably a no-go.
The program I want to transfer to is horribly impacted - they're
basically as selective as an ivy-league school until the state funds
them again - and that isn't going to happen anytime soon.

L

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