From:
sukie crandall
Date: 2003-11-06 00:35:24 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Pertwee's necropsy -- hepatic cell carcinoma
To: caitlyn@mizuhoradio.com, ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-id: <1C88CF03-0FF1-11D8-A7E9-000A95CD182C@optonline.net>
>Besides, isn't the point of the necropsy to try and learn what
happened and
>help other ferrets if at all possible?
Yes, it sure is! There have been many ferrets helped over the years
form what necropsies can show us.
Dr. Sue wrote an interesting reply going into how this is a
particularly hard problem to find which I suspect you are reading just
about now since it arrived soon after my note. I learned a good bit
from it.
I'm glad that Pertwee got to live life fully up to the last; Glueball
was like that, too. As much as we miss her that does wind up being a
comfort. I hope that you find as much comfort in that as we have. Of
course, you already know about giving life to the fullest because you
have always been so careful to treat ferrets so that they could have
their best shot at life.
For anyone who hasn't thought about it, Caity emphasizes an excellent
point here: as ironic as it may sound, necropsies do save lives
because they teach and because they allow for making changes or even
for treating other ferrets when a communicable disease shows up. I can
even recall three cases in which the result also saved humans: two
involving carbon monoxide and one involving an undetected gas leak
under a stove. Necropsies, pathology, and sometimes even toxicology on
deceased ferrets do help other ferrets.
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