From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2004-09-08 00:37:11 UTC
Subject: Polo is home from his surgery
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <6166327.1094620534556.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Author wrote:
> It doesn't sound like Hannibal can wait a week until your vet comes back. Isn't there anyone at your vet's clinic that can recommend another ferret knowledgeable vet to see in the meantime?
> He can't live on water alone. If you can't get him to take anything, he should probably be in the hospital, on an IV.
Mike's right. See if any of these resources help you. Each list is different from the rest;
http://www.ferretcongress.org (crit refs but there is a lot more there)
http://www.supportourshelters.org
http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/ferrethealth/ReferenceShelf/FerretVets.htm
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/vets/ Search by zip code, read FAQ first.
http://www.quincyweb.net/quincy/vet.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/vets.htm
http://www.ferretcentral.org/for-others/db-vets.html
http://www.ferretuniverse.com/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/houseferrets13uk/Vets.html UK vets
http://www.ferrets.org/Veterinarian_Listings.htm British Columbia vets
http://www.ferretnews.org/clinic.html California-specific
http://www.ferretsanonymous.com/medical.html California
To: theferretconection@yahoogroups.com, theferretrealm@groups.msn.com,
AmericanFerretAssociation@yahoogroups.com,
addictedtoferrets@yahoogroups.com, okferrets@groups.aol.com,
deaf_ferrets@yahoogroups.com, Ferret-Talk@yahoogroups.com,
ferret@groups.msn.com, ferrethealth@smartgroups.com,
ferretsanctuary@groups.msn.com
From: Ferretmomie@aol.com
Message-ID: <ba.5fbc61df.2e6fae37@aol.com>
Today Polo went in to have his ulcerated Tumor removed. We went in at 10:00,
he first had his blood work done, everything was fine, then at noon he had his
surgery. At one point it got scary, when they were almost done, he stopped
breathing and went into cardiac arrest. They brought him back and because of the
rush he ended up with staples. The vet does not like to use staples but under
the circumstances he wanted to polo of the anesthesia and on strictly oxygen
as soon as possible. He said for some reason he could not handle the
anesthesia. So my poor baby has staples in his side. I have a cone for him to wear if
he needs to, but so far he has not messed with them. He is on Metacam for pain.
I am also giving him Pet tenic and Bene-bac. I have him in the sick cage next
to where I am at. He has drank but didn't feel much like eating.
I really don't like the staples but at least he is still here with us.
Thanks to everyone for your prayers. God was listening because he didn't let
Polo go.
julie