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Date: 2006-05-23 22:50:28 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] aspirate a mass or exploratory
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Last night my 5.5 year old female MF threw up. I gave her a .4 cc of Pepto and in 5 minutes she was asleep. When I gave her the pepto I palpated her abdomin and found a mass just left of her midline about the size of a ping pong ball or a little smaller. She is only about 900 grams, short sqat build. It didn't really feel like her spleen though. It did kinda move around freely.
This morning she was eating, playing and peeing.
I took her in to the vet and did an ultrasound. He couldn't really tell what if anything the mass was attached to. It was filled with fluid and that is all he could really tell. He said it might be attached to the tip of the spleen. He gave me three options- just monitor, sedate and aspirate or exploratory surgery. He thought sedate and aspirate was best. I thought that you really couldn't tell anything with an aspiration of unknown origin. I don't know where I got that from though. Is there anything else I should be looking at or for? She has always been a healthy ferret. Seedy poops now and then but that is about it. For some nagging reason I think that the aspirate is a waste. Can you guys straighten me out? thanks, Mary JO
BUT, I still haven't seen a bowel movement. I now have her seperated from the group and it has been 5 hours and no BM.
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