From:
sukiecrandall@telocity.com
Date: 2002-07-22 17:25:00 UTC
Subject: IBD hard case good news; Complete Heart Block good news
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <27900171.1027358700281.JavaMail.root@scandium>
I don't know how many of you will remember Scooter. He's a 5 and 1/2 year old who first joined us at about 5 weeks of age due to a birth deformity to a paw. Tootie has had IBD for at least a year and a half I'd guess offhand and a terribly enlarged stomach for quite some time and last year had two stomach surgeries to remove hairballs since he insisits on grooming everyone but his flaccid stomach is poor at moving fur. Anyway, after many tries of many meds the only thing that consistently gave him some relief was a combo of using z/d food, and giving him Imuran and Biosol Aquadrops (which was a new one for us). The Imuran began in December of 2001 and the Biosol began in April of this year.
After all of this time Scooter has just managed two weeks of normal movements. For the longest while the absolute best we ever could get was to have a number of them mostly formed, but he seems to have turned a corner.
I hope that this means that we can begin weaning the Imuran for safety's sake. There was no way to avoid it in the past, but maybe he has a shot at it in the future now. We have an update on his vet's recorder.
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The other update is on Seven who has a complete A/V heart block. She is still with us and enjoying life -- no pain and her Aminophylline and Enacard allow her to play some (We monitor her but she is better and better at knowing when she needs a break.) and have a good time. Since this has been over a month the chances of a remission are probably zip, so she will die of this at some point, but she is having a grand time and enjoying life greatly.