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Date: 2003-01-13 23:27:28 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] No "new" news about Melissa
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <F48L4q95169oWmZgT1T0000c971@hotmail.com>
>From: snobound@aol.com
>
>As soon as she smells food (gerber chicken baby food) she wakes up
>immediately. She has the desire to come out. After I feed her she is a
>lot more alert and even attemps to climb out of her cage!
That's really good news, I'm glad to hear it :)
>I am only stating the above because some people say she cannot be alive
>with her glucose level - which puzzles me!
My ferret Amelia tested _in the vet's office_ in the upper 20s but did not
present at all like a ferret whose glucose was that low--her blood sugar
reading came as a real shock to the vet, the techs and myself. According to
my vet and other vets online, some ferrets compensate better than others, so
what might mean a coma or seizure or worse for one ferret might be tolerable
for another. If she had shown symptoms sooner we might have caught the
insulinoma sooner, but Amelia was never one for letting much of anything
slow her down. We never did get her glucose much over 65 or 70 for the last
several months of her life but she had some solid quality time. As they
say, your mustelid may vary.
again, glad to hear Melissa's a little perkier :)
Regina
Regina Harrison regina_z@hotmail.com or regina@channel1.com
http://www.channel1.com/users/regina/
blog: http://www.channel1.com/users/regina/zblog.html
Is that my business? Well, what is my business? Do I know? Did I ever
know? Lets not go into that. Youre not human tonight, Marlowe. Maybe I
never was or ever will be... Maybe we all get like this in the cold
half-lit world where always the wrong thing happens and never the right.
--Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister
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