From:
mjanke@miamiferret.org
Date: 2005-05-27 23:19:33 UTC
Subject: Bandit Campbell
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <652457.1117230901579.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Author wrote:
> My old girl is adrenal again. I started her on lupron
> last month.
I meant to ask what dose of Lupron she's getting. That can be a factor as to whether or not it will work.
mike
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<ferrethealth@smartgroups.com>, "lisa & mike" <lndlchok@crocker.com>,
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<armstrob@georgetown.edu>
From: "April Armstrong Campbell" <grape_apes@charter.net>
Message-ID: <006f01c56312$8ae08be0$6401a8c0@bigbox>
I sent an email about this before, but my stupid email editor said it sent =
it off and didn't, and I can't get as detailed this time, but basically:
We did an exploratory on Tuesday to look at what appeared to be a liver tum=
or on ultrasound for my Bandit. In fact, it was a mass that basically invo=
lved his entire omentum; it encompassed one kidney completely, much of the =
other, invaded all of the liver lobes, invaded the stomach and spleen. It =
was extremely friable-bled when you touched it at all, and my surgeon, afte=
r looking at it for a very long time, decided she couldn't even resect it w=
ithout the likelihood that he would bleed to death at some point once he wa=
s closed up, and we certainly wouldn't have been able to remove enough to g=
ive him better quality of life or even more time (not that I would have don=
e it if it had just been about length of life).
If it had even just been the liver involvment, she could probably have gott=
en it, and probably even got it from the one kidney, but it basically encom=
passed everything in his abdomen; she was amazed that he was still alive wi=
th that inside of him. We took some samples and sent them off for biopsy, =
closed up, and sent my tough little gentle man to the Bridge. Everyone I w=
ork with was bawling (I work as a vet tech).
My little old man was 5 when he came to us, dumped three times before he ca=
me to us, not knowing how to be a ferret, and fell in love with our other g=
uys. He had a tough year this year, losing three of his friends in three m=
onths, which he is always especially sensitive to, and he loved to snuggle =
with other ferrets. He once tried to steal a double-yellow-headed Amazon p=
arrot (he just wanted to stash it-he didn't even break its skin), and had a=
fondness for Foamy Fries, N-Bone chicken sticks, Bob Church's chicken grav=
y and, of course, Bandits.
We will miss him TONS.
-April and Shawn Campbell and Cora, Finnegan and the two yet-to-be-renamed =
new guys (came to us as Bandit and Nicky, ironically); missing Bandit, Nico=
demus, Holly, Marley, Shannon, Renate and Sparkle