From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2002-06-22 11:44:00 UTC
Subject: Warp is still with us and improving -- apparently she has a
personal health quirk (neg. response to Lasix)
In 20 years we've never seen a ferret get that close to death and
turn around. The only thing we can figure out is that she apparently
has a very negative sensitivity to Lasix. Talk about unusual. We've
never had one do this with this med. There were times yesterday when
she lost consciousness, times when she was barely breathing, times
when her breath was chilly feeling, etc. The others ferrets first
were afraid around her, then decided to cuddle her, then reached the
point where they were again very afraid and nervous. The odor she had
was terrible but around 4 a.m. it changed with a slight undertone of
her regular sleep smell. During the wee hours, though, she stopped
having any purple to her rear feet, and her body stopped being so
chilly. At around 8 a.m. she was clearly back with the living, and
at 10:30 she decided to drink on her own. She's been getting flat
pick guitar music, lots of attention, much sleeping on us, and we are
doing her care in shifts so that someone is always awake and with her
which means we are very tired. We are waiting to hear from her vet
and I guess we'll likely be finding a home for some Lasix.
I somehow doubt we'll even be trying the Ovaban; she was already
terminal and surviving beyond the time anyone expected by pulling out
all stops, now her individual quirk that set off her collapse has
likely done further damage but no one had any reason to anticipate
this. That's one of the things we all have to just try to remember,
no individual of any species is going to be text book in everything;
all have their own individual quirks and some of those quirks are
whoppers. Figured that you'd want to know that this one collapses
with Lasix and recovers mostly about 36 hours after it is stopped.
Normally, it would have been a very good med for her to have, but
this is just her.
(We've been through ones with near-fatal allergic reactions to vax that even required incubation, been through Addisonian Crises before folks knew to use things like Florinef, etc. This was different. Think she may have had a form of anapylactic reaction to her that onemed, though. She still could pass at any time due to her health problems, but not now and not of this.)