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samls.theriver.com
Date: 2002-07-01 23:40:20 UTC
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<div><font face="Papyrus"><b>Last week, I posted the following on the
Yahoo Groups FHL. Unfortunately, it received no replies. I
am reposting it here, hoping someone can answer at least some of my
questions.<font color="#8000FF"><br>
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</font><a
href=
"http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Health-list/post?protectID=077056091180056134217112163140247222094090091241077113161126172205142"><fontface="Arial"size="-1"color="#000080"><span
></span>Ferret-Health-list@y...</font></a><font face="Arial"
size="-1" color="#8000FF">, "dr_bruce_williams" <</font><a
href=
"http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Health-list/post?protectID=125176235078082031072232213248062208071048"><fontface="Arial"size="-1"color="#8000FF"><span
></span>williamsb@c...</font></a><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#8000FF">><br>
</font><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">wrote:<br>
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> I am sorry for your loss of Mosby. The mily change to the serum
is<br>
> triglyceridemia, evidence that the body is mobilizing fat stores
to<br>
> try to convert them into glucose.<br>
><br>
<br>
<br>
Dr. Williams, thank you so much for clarifying some points on
Mosby's<br>
problem. I plan on sharing you thoughts with my vet. I think that<br>
he and I were so intent on the fact that Mosby had a history of<br>
Insulinoma, and of tests with low blood glucose, that we did not
take<br>
the reading Monday as seriously as we should have. While we knew<br>
something was going on, my vet was afraid to give insulin without<br>
additional monitoring, for fear the Monday test was a fluke.<br>
<br>
Now, I have a few more questions for anyone that knows the
answers.<br>
<br>
1)Is the diabetes actually caused by the pred? Or is it a further<br>
malfunction of the pancreas. Do we know why this happens?<br>
<br>
2)Could the fever have been related to the diabetic condition, or
is<br>
it likely to be something else? If he had an infection, could it
have been brewing for a while, and the symptoms have been hidden by
the pred?<br>
<br>
3) Would having a pathologist look at the pancreas provide us with<br>
additional information that might help us make better decisions in<br>
the future? Currently, I have all the organs that were removed at
my<br>
home in specimen bottles. I do not want to pay for pathology work<br>
that will not add additional useful information, but if there is<br>
something that we can learn, I will have my vet submit the samples
to<br>
his lab.<br>
<br>
4) If pathology work would be advised, are there any other organs<br>
that should be looked at? I have most of them, except the heart.
My vet thought the intestine was the most likely source of the
infection, and so I also have sections of it.<br>
<br>
While I miss Mo a lot, I am not uncomfortable with the decision I<br>
made. He was very sick, and acted like he was in pain at the end.
I<br>
also know that managing a diabetic ferret is not easy, and, even
if<br>
we had pulled him through the crisis, his chances would not have
been<br>
good. Even the vet who performed the necropsy felt there was
little<br>
hope of pulling Mo through, given his condition.<br>
Danee</font></div>
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