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From: sukiecrandall@telocity.com
Date: 2001-11-16 14:07:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Soot's diagnosis

Do you know how to make a pantyhose sling? Get vet
permission to use one first. Choose the size according the
human user's height (which means that they can be color-coded
when family members are different heights), sew the feet
together to form a flat hammock for the ferret to rest upon. Roll
the top and sew to form a handle. Put ferret on the hammock
and walk the ferret around.

How was the diagnosis made? If a biopsy was not done (which
would be diagnostic) then remember that "possible lympho" can
sound like only like "lympho" during a difficult time, so hopefully,
it won't be that.


--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., "Rae Edmiston" <raee@c...> wrote:
> Well
> My rescue of a week, who's about 5 months old was
diagnosed yesterday with
> Lymphoma. He had gotten a steroid shot and within 4 hours
that had
> dramatically improved the use of his back legs! :) He's almost
a normal
> walking fert now, the poor baby! The vet said he was losing
peripheral
> senses or something like that, because when he pinched the
pad of the leg
> that was dragging (right back) he jerked it, but he seemed to
not know that
> the leg was dragging along and at a funky angle all the time.
Wonderful
> Tracy from Spokane Shelter is sending me a Lymphoma
packet so I have a
> better idea of what to treat him with and such, but I wanted to
know if I
> should go have him get another shot of the steriod for bringing
down the
> inflammation some more, maybe he will fully regain his back
legs?? What do
> you guys think? And if anyone has some lymphoma
information for kits that
> would like to share, or know of websites (other than
ferretcentral, I read
> all I could find there, which isnt much) I'd appreciate it.
>
> *crossing her fingers and hoping for Soot*
> Rae