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From: Kent Polkinghorne
Date: 2002-03-07 12:48:00 UTC
Subject: Help Urinary Tract Blockage!!!!

Dr. Williams I apologize for writing directly but I am afraid time is
running out for Alex.

Alex is an 8 year old male that had to go to the emergency room Monday
night. He was experiencing severe pain trying to urinate to the point
of squawking and crying. This was from a ferret that rarely vocalizes
anything. The emergency room ran a catheter an expelled allot of urine
and small crystall sand. We took him home that night and while he was
feeling better and eating and drinking he still was not urinating.

We took him to his normal vet who stuck a needle in his bladder and drew
out 20 cc + of urine. He was also expressing mucusy puss out of his
penis. They admitted him drew blood and urine samples and then tried to
run a catheter. They could not get one in his penis so they had to
surgically implant one. The blood test came back slightly elevated but
nothing to suggest renal damage. They flushed his bladder with saline
and got back a lot of the puss and some fine crystals. The doctor
reported that he was expelling small amount of urine normally ( not
enough though, they still had to drain more with a saringe.) The vet
thinks that the urinary tract infection caused the original blockage and
not the crystals. The reason he is not urinating according to the vet
is that his urethra and or penis is so inflamed that is cannot pass the
liquid.
The vet let us bring him home last night and since then he has not
passed any urine and refuses to eat or drink even the soup I made from
Science Diet, Gerber's chicken and veal, feravite, and pedialite. We
are going back today to get his bladder drained again.
Is there any other treatment or causes we should be looking for and is
their something I or the vet can do to make the swelling to go down
faster?
At this rate I am afraid he will get toxic levels in his blood if we
don't do something.

ANY help would be appreciated.
Thank you,

Kent Polkinghorne
and
ALEX