From:
yuriko141@hotmail.com
Date: 2005-01-15 05:37:54 UTC
Subject: Please give me your advice re: lymphoma
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <6871350.1105767474883.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Please give me your advice and help my ferret!!!
I have adopted an abandoned female angora ferret in November 2003. She was abondoned in a carton box on a rainy day, and at that time, she was almost less than 1 year old.
She had been super fine until the end of last year.
The beginning was Dec. 27th. My Ale-tan started to vomit badly, and I found out there were some blood spots in the vomit. So I called my doctor, and took Ale-tan to a hospital right away. The doctor took X-ray. The x-ray was fine. Nothing was found and all of the organs seem to be normal. Since Ale-tan had vomited before and her poop was often half black(green?) color, he diagnosed her illness as stomach ulcer. At the same time, he noted that if Ale-tan cannot get better with the medicine he prescribed, there is a possibility of lymphoma.
Ale-tan got better and stopped vomitting. However, her poop was still 1/4 green or black like with bird-seed things.
When I went back home from work on January 11th, I found out Ale-tan had vomitted badly. She was very fine when I played with her in the morning, but she could not move at night. She started vomitting in front of me and I took her to the hospital next morning.
The doctor gave her a barium meal to check the stomach, and took her blood, and explained there were some lymphocytes in her blood. (I also saw the screen) He told me Ale-tan has lymphoma and she won't live longer than 1 year. I burst into tears.
Currently, no lymph nodes swollen, no tumor were found, and she became very energetic again just like before. She is taking a little bid of three kinds of medicine; steroid, anti-cancer, and something to stop stomach inflammation once a day. The doctor said it is very very small quantity, and will watch the change in the blood value.
Right now, there are 3 unusual things were found in her blood:
WBC: 126H X10(2) uL
GPT: 367 IU/L
TP: 9.0
I still cannot believe she is dying. Is there any way to help? If there are some lymphocytes in blood, is it really lymphoma?? Are there any cases to recover completely from this disease??
Please help her. She just got a happy life and I do not want to let her die like this.
Sorry for the long message. I hope I can save her! Please give me your advice.
I will be waiting for the replies. Thank you. (T_T)
YURIKO