Larry, sorry to hear one of your "kids" is ill, hope you get through it soon.
-Ben > You all remember Ryoga, the ferret of mine who was having the very > complicated adrenal cancer last summer. He gave us a bad a scare last night. > Around 9 pm, he began having seizures. We tried calling an emergency vet > that we had previously been to for our cat. Unfortunately their phone system > was set wrong, so we ended up driving to the clinic, about 20 miles away. We > get there only to discover that the clinic does not treat ferrets. We called > a second emergency clinic, nope they don't take in ferrets either. > > So we ended up having to go to a third emergency clinic. It was a late > night. They tested his blood sugar as soon as we got there. His blood > glucose levels were very low, 36. So he got some iv glucose solution. He did > pretty good after that. We decided to leave him overnight at the clinic just > in case. > > It ended up being an early morning too, I had to get up quite early to pick > Ryoga up from the emergency clinic and take him to his regular vet first > thing. I figure I've been on the road for about 3 hours or so in rush hour > traffic this morning. Traffic in this area sucks. Big time. > > Looks like the ferret may have insulinoma - where his pancreas produces too > much insulin - opposite of diabetes. We'll find out more later on today. Not > something that needs be happening to him. > > Thanks, just needed to vent a bit. > > larry > > -- > Larry C. Lyons > ColdFusion/Web Developer > Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer > EBStor.com > 8870 Rixlew Lane, Suite 204 > Manassas, Virginia 20109-3795 > tel: (703) 393-7930 > fax: (703) 393-2659 > Web: http://www.ebstor.com > http://www.pacel.com > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. > -- > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
