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cd815261@juno.com
Date: 2005-05-09 14:29:01 UTC
Subject: RE: Update on Noodle
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
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I just wanted to share something I learned this weekend of what may possibly be wrong with Noodle. I had been conferring with a doctor out in Oregon who is researching DIM and she seems to think that Noodle might have some form of it. She had about 10 cases she had filed as "unlikely cases". Upon reviewing them again she said that they either had fever or high WBC of unknown causes and either got better or at least did not die and seems to think that "there is an array of responses to this disease." She will be calling and talking to my vet this week and will get back to me. I'll keep you informed of what I find out. I take Noodle in for a weight check this Thursday. He couldn't have his scheduled biopsy surgery because of having gained so much weight on the prednisolone - hopefully he's lost some of it. Talk to you soon.........Deb;o)
Author wrote:
> This is just an update on my little guy, Noodle. He will be going in for
> a biopsy next Thursday, April 28th. This way the doctor will know
> exactly what it is he is treating. On his last visit, two weeks ago, his
> WBC had gone from 13,000 to 25,000. The doctor had said that he thought
> the size of his spleen had reduced in size slightly but he still had the
> mass that was about the size of a grape. He seemed to think the mass was
> the node/gland that supplied blood to the intestine and that should be
> the size of a pea. This is when he suggested we have a biopsy done. He
> had also changed his antibiotic at that time to enrofloxacin - along with
> the prednisolone and pepcid. He has shown an improvement since the
> change in the meds - but I guess the doctor still thinks that a biopsy is
> the best route to take...........so that's what we're doing next week.
> I'm nervous about it.......I hope he does okay.
> Deb;o)