From:
Jim & Laura Ferris
Date: 2001-11-09 18:46:00 UTC
Subject: Needs adrenal surgery
Thanks for the feed-back about Simon (who is on melatonin)
and even though his fur has grown back that there is still a
need to have the adrenal surgery done. My vet is the best I
can find around here and I know he's not up on adrenal
surgery. We're in MI's Upper Peninsula near Iron
Mountain....if anyone knows of anyone, we'd love to know! Bob
Church has a very well-done article on adrenal disease and
from what we can gather from the article, ferrets that do not
have any treatment live about a year, plus or minus 6 months.
And ferrets older than 5 that have surgery will live about 1
and a half years, plus or minus 6 months. It doesn't sound
very encouraging.