From:
swamp
Date: 2002-10-11 00:42:13 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Info on Dr. Weiss; note on ml/cc
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20021010093727.00a5f6c0@mail>
At 07:20 PM 10/8/2002 -0400, Connie wrote:
>I would like to talk with members who have driven/flown/whatever to see Dr.
>Weiss. I'm considering making the trek from CT but I'm not sure what to
>expect, did you stay over night or several nights, how are post op's handled,
>things like that.
A couple years back one of my guys presented adrenal symptoms, and since I
was going to DC anyway I brought him along. We flew into Dulles the day
before surgery and, at the suggestion of the clinic, drove to a hotel in
nearby Frederick. Next morning I dropped him off at 9 AM and picked him up
at 4 PM, missing both adrenal glands and a third of his pancreas. I
expected him to be pretty wiped out for a few days, but by 9 PM that
evening he was eating, drinking, eliminating, even jumping off the bed
(ouch!). The next morning we headed back to DC where I was going to do some
sight-seeing while he did some more recuperating, but after returning to a
bored and pumped up ferret two nights in a row we flew home early.
Mike (the ferret) handled the travel well, and that included 2 5-hour car
trips across the desert, two cross-country flights with layovers in Dallas,
and two hotel rooms all in a span of 5 days. 2 weeks post op my vet pulled
the stitches and drew blood for an Na/K test which was normal. He's now 25
months post op and remains asymptomatic, making his recovery as lasting as
it was speedy. As you may have guessed, I couldn't recommend Dr. Weiss more
highly.
On the ml/cc thing: The beauty of the metric system is that the weight,
length, and volume units are all derived from the meter, of which there are
10 million from pole to equator. Take a cubed liter of water and slice it
into tenths in the x, y, and z axes. That leaves you with 1000 (or 10^3)
little cubes measuring 1 centimeter (cc) per side, aptly called cubic
centimeters. Since there are 1000 of them per liter, they're also called
milliliters (ml). If you're upsizing, there are 1000 liters in a cubic
meter and so on. A cc of water weighs one gram (g) and a liter weighs one
kilogram (kg). That aforementioned cubic meter of water weighs...? Yep,
1000 kg. Why we're still using ounces and feet in the US is miles beyond me.
Rob