From:
Quarrius@aol.com
Date: 2003-05-11 10:15:36 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Complicated Post Op Question
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <1227158.1052666043617.JavaMail.nobody@magnesium>
Mike/ Sydney/ all others who might be able to help:
Thanks for letting me know it might just be that she has had a hard sugery. I'm
still not sure.
I guess I should have included that she is in a "sick cage" 24 hours a day minus
feeding times. She comes out and sits by the dish when she eats and that is
her only "out" time of the day. I would say a total of 10 minutes a day.
when she trotted down the hall it was whenI turned my back on her that was
why I had hopes she was feeling better--all other times she can't even walk to
the dish 3 feet away from the cage. It hurts me to see and since it is a Sunday
and no vets are open (nothing I would trust anyway), I am freaking out!
her back end is flopping everywhere. I mentioned the lack of appitite, the
lethargy to the vet tech yesterday. The vet still thinks it is ok, I trust him but I
am just worried. I have done post op on quite all my ferret surgeries (~15) and
none have been like this. I think it isn't so much thelethary but the fact that
when she does walk, she can't support her back end. Almost looks like the
Addisonian Crash my other ferret had the way she is unsteady and flops
around. They said she got her percorten injection after surgery, so I am
assuming that isn't it.
thanks for any other advice you can give!
Meg