The Fly (alias Tot, 'Teetse Tot, Teetse Fly, 'Teetse) got through her
surgeries very well despite her tachy heart.  We'll be calling later today
to get a further update on her condition and she'll come home tomorrow.
There was a large adrenal tumor on the left (most common) side, but the
right was normal and that's after postponing the surgery for a year because
of her heart and due to other possible causes of the repeated infections
needing to be eliminated, and her fat to muscle ratio needing to be slowly
and steadily improved.  (You'd NEVER have believed before that this ferret
is 6 years old and you sure wouldn't believe it now.)  Other than the
vaginal infections she had NO signs of adrenal growths.  (Over the years
we've also had two known post mortem to have completely asymptomatic
adrenal growths -- I am wondering more and more if adrenal growths are
common but if the symptomatic ones are the problems (like with slipped
discs) and if one direction for questioning should be HOW common they are
in general population (symptomatically and asymptomatically) and then if
they are common WHAT triggers make them become symptomatic.)  Anyway, she
also had two asymptomatic pancreatic growths which came out with
surrounding tissue while he was in there, the skin tumor came out well, and
he checked her somewhat big spleen but it's been the norm for her for many
years so it stayed since there was no reason to remove it.  Steve and I are
calmer now.
 
Sukie
[Posted in FML issue 2489]