From:
Pam Sessoms
Date: 2001-09-18 11:43:00 UTC
Subject: Re: [Ferret-Health-list] Back Injury Update
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, jones wrote:
> Again I was wondering if anyone on the list has any experience with
> back injuries in ferrets or if they know of back surgery ever being
> done?
Kathleen,
I haven't personally heard of any of them having had surgery done, but
maybe someone else has?
I wrote a message a little while ago about my Mojo's back problem. But he
got over it without surgery - he had no compression, nothing visible on
radiographs, so his was a different kind of case. You wrote before that
you had one treated with dexamethasone, and I think Mojo's case was
probably handled similarly (with pred). The message about Mojo was FHL
post number 6908, viewable at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Health-list/message/6908
Please keep us posted!
-Pam S.