Poor Ryoga. Poor Larry too. I am constantly impressed by the wonderful dedicated pet owners on this list. Most folks dump their animals when they get ill but on this group we have the best pet owners anywhere.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 6:18 AM Subject: Rough night. > 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. > -- > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
