From:
Julie
Date: 2010-05-13 00:00:58 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] URGENT: Extreme pain after 5 days post-op
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Thank you to everyone who responded so far, it is greatly appreciated. I ju=
st visited her and there seems to be a slight improvement.
I'd like to add some more info.
Many of you that emailed me had the same concern as I did over her stomach =
full of food. I was upset that he went in looking for a hairball/perforated=
ulcer and came out with a spleen.(though it needed to come out)
=C2=A0I did discuss this with the Doctor and his answer was, "Stomach conte=
nts were contaminating my surgical field." He said while she was open=C2=A0=
he did feel for foreign bodies in the stomach and did look at the intestine=
s and that they looked normal.=C2=A0Does anyone know if this enough to just=
ify not going into the stomach?
=C2=A0In conversation this past week he did say he "messed around with the =
intestines (?)and did not go into the stomach because his instinct told him=
he was only going to find a bunch of tiny ulcers." I am way out of my leag=
ue here so make what you will of it all.
She has always been laxed and when we suspected hairballs she was aggressiv=
ely laxed. No hairballs or any change in poops through it all.
Her ulcer was treated for 2 months. She never had any change in poops, no d=
ark tarry stools.
At the moment she is being treated with Metoclopramide=C2=A0which I request=
ed after another vet mentioned it might help to get the stomach moving. =C2=
=A0It has been 28 hours since the injection was given, she finally pooped o=
ut Barium liquid from LAST Thursday.=C2=A0
---I just left the office and I checked her current med regimen and noticed=
he did put her on Tramadol per my request but is using it in conjunction w=
ith Buprenorphine. Is it safe or beneficial for him to be using BOTH pain m=
eds at the same time?=C2=A0I would like to discuss that with him in the mor=
ning.
I am horrified at the though of her needing another surgery to look in the =
stomach. I can't imagine she would live through it.
Thanks so much for your help!
[Stomach surgery can be very tricky, so if a ferret
seems too compromised or if the vet is worried that
the stomach may be friable (tear easily) then going
into it may be avoided as being too risky. At times
there is the hard call of trying something very risky
because it may be needed, or going with something
that is seen which is safer but could be the explanation
for what has been going wrong.
--Moderator]
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