My vet and I have a rather technical question.  When removing an adrenal
tumor on the "tough" side (right side?) the literature says if you rip the
vena cava just tie it off (a paraphrase).  The vena cava is a major artery
right?  How can this work?  My vet has done 1 adrenal surgery (sigh).  A
woman brought in her ferret, found out it had all the symptoms of adrenal
and was going to put it down rather than opt for treatment.  Not having
done an adrenal surgery my vet offered to do it for free with the
stipulation that if the ferret died - no litigation.  She said yes, he
ripped the vena cava, tied off as recommended and it worked.  But he can't
figure out how or why this doesn't result in a backflow of blood.  Anyone?
 
I still have puker and after 37.00 dollars for a consult on what I thought
was an ultrasound appt with someone other than my vet in a different town
he told me he didn't think ultrasound would tell us anything.  So.....back
to more bloodwork, more barium x-rays, more antiobiotics.  If all that
doesn't work one more time I'm considering exploratory surgery.  The
problem is its quite intermittment vomiting and though the poop is usually
soft and there's some unproductive straining he's still alive and seems
pretty well after any number of months.  (Yes I have upped the cat lax dose
significantly).  The idea of exploratory makes me cringe but I'm worried
none the less.
 
Mary, Boris and Giesela and Booker the dog
[Posted in FML issue 2605]