From:
Ulrike Stanley
Date: 2002-03-28 13:22:00 UTC
Subject: Jack :-( Autopsy photos for vets and anybody who's
interested
My Jack's been ill for quite some time, all we knew from the x-rays was that
he had a mass in his chest and this mass caused fluid build-up in or around
his lungs. It was controlled with Frusemide. Jack suddenly took a turn for
the worse over night and we had him put to sleep Wednesday 20th of March. He
got a mouth abscess over night, he'd had this pocket in his mouth and his
lower right canine fit into that pocket. But the pocket must have got
infected and the right side of his face by his mouth was swollen and his
nose was swollen, it looked like he had a roman nose. He was in a lot of
pain and looked very poorly. He still ate tough... But we took him to the
vets and I had a good idea that this time we would have to let him go. This
time he didn't suddenly look bright at the vets. He laid there with his eyes
half closed. Jilly went downhill and had to be put to sleep because of an
abscess developing which weakened her body too much to get better and now
Jack had the same thing, an abscess that gave him the rest. The vet listened
to his chest and said that she could hardly hear the lungs fill with air, it
sounded like they were barely working, like they were compressed badly. So
we had him put to sleep. The vet wanted to inject into the kidneys but I'd
asked to give him gas and do the heart, I said kidneys don't work that well
and that with Jilly there was so much fat around the kidney that the other
vet didn't manage to inject into the kidney. But the vet thought the heart
was hard to get at because it was so misplaced in his chest so Jack had gas
and she tried to inject into the kidneys but that didn't work so the vet
tried to get his heart and was successful after a few attempts. There was
nobody in the waiting room so she did the autopsy straight away. Jack was
such a mess inside, there was fat everywhere. No huge tumours, just fat. And
a few little tumours hidden in the fat. The whole chest cavity was filled
with fat, there was no room for his lungs, they were so small... The organs
looked okay. Just masses of fat everywhere...
The autopsy photos are here:
www.ferretlove.co.uk/jackpm.htm
I don't want to put them on Yahoo because there's so many (9) pictures so if
anybody is interested it'll be easier to view them on my web page. I hope
I've used the right words to describe them.
The histopathology report follows in the next mail.
Ulrike
and Bella, Mason, Baby, Dana, Fox, Reno, Rose, Jasmine, Hobo, Gremlin,
Bobby, Willow and Tara
Missing Angel, Hope, Igor, Barney, Tom, Spike, Jilly and Jack
West Wales Ferret Welfare
E-mail: ferretlove@n...
http://www.ferretlove.co.uk
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