From:
wolfysluv@aol.com
Date: 2002-06-19 09:50:00 UTC
Subject: splenomegaly options
I come here to the FHL and the FML as well, to get a better
grasp on a condition before comming to a decision with my vet....
and to get ideas that my vet may not have being that both here are
not super vet savvy. :) Thank you, for in the past for helping me
so much... every one here with experience and the vets especially.
I have a rescue MF male, who's estimated age would bring him
just about at four years old. He has had an enlarged spleen that
goes up and down. I've watched it for a year and my vet has watched
it also. Its been up very bad however in recent weeks (we had a flu
go through the home last month). He's been over any cold/flu
symptoms... every one has been over it in fact for almost three
weeks. Yet his spleen is very large. He seems almost bloated. He
is very sleepy, more sleepy even than before but otherwise no other
symptoms.
Antibiotic therapy has never been attempted. So, I was
wondering, that even if he has no other symptoms or has had none in
the past besides fatigue, would this be worth trying? Would it be
worth a go... a round of antibiotics to see if he's just had some
smoldering infection going on all this time? If so what would be
good and for how long?
If extraction is necessary (boy and what decides that?), does a
ferret truly go on afterwards like nothing has happened as I've read
here before? Would it increase his quality of life, and would it
perhaps extend it? This is important because this is a ferret with
past horrible abuses... I don't want to do surgery on him ever
unless those three questions have very positive answers. Although
contraversial.... you see, I'd rather him die without the stress and
terrifying experience of surgery in hid particular case,
UNLESS...... those three answers make it worth my while. He is
very delicate emotionally.
I know this has been spoken of at length before on this list...
But I surely didn't find direct answers to this exact set of
questions for a similar case. I wanted to go on and speak to my vet
today, and I wanted to be well informed for him.
Wolfy
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