Message Number: SG12142 | New FHL Archives Search
From: sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-01-04 18:54:01 UTC
Subject: RE: splenoctomy
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <6135907.1104864841741.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

We've had two or three over the years (going on 25 years) who have had spleens out. No special care was needed for them and they thrived. As Bruce Williams said to us with the last one here "Imagine a human carrying around a 40 pound spleen..."

You'll find a lot about this in the Archives, for instance:

http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=SG491

http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=SG6781

http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=SG2250