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Muta Update
13 years ago
**First of all: THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE WHO HAS DONATED AND/OR SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT MUTA. It has made a world of difference and I was able to afford her vet visit and meds today!**
Previous journal about Muta: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/3594001/
This morning at 7am I took Muta to an avian and exotic vet. They gave her subcutaneous fluids and an injection for her intestinal inflammation and nausea. They also did a fecal parasite test on her, which came out negative. ECE (the disease I mentioned in my previous journal) isn't researched enough to be an "official" disease, thus it is not specifically taught about in vet school, so the vet did not say anything about it, even when I mentioned what it was and how Muta was displaying all of the telltale symptoms that medical researchers have associated with it.
Muta is able to walk around for a few minutes at a time, but then eventually falls over when her legs give out. She is still extremely weak, lethargic, and feverish. She has severe diarrhea that has dehydrated her to the point of being limp and breathing erratically. Ferrets can die within 24 hours of getting dehydrated, so it's EXTREMELY important that she keeps getting fluids.
The only way to see what is truly wrong with her intestines is to do a complete intestinal spectrum test, which shows any viruses, excess bacteria, ulcers, and/or diseases. This test costs an additional $200, and I could not afford to get this done today. The vet urged me to have this done, as well as keeping Muta hospitalized overnight to make sure she gets enough fluids, but the cost of her staying overnight there for a couple of days is WAY out of my financial range. Poor little girl, she flat out refuses to take water from her own water bowl or from a syringe. I'm just praying I can keep her hydrated and get some food into her.
I was able to pay for today's visit as well as 3 medications to give her twice daily. It breaks my heart to make her take these meds because she literally has to be held down and have them forced into her mouth, and then she cries and claws at her face and mouth because of the taste and her stress levels :(
OH and the vet also wants to see my new ferret Milo because he could very well be a carrier of whatever Muta has. I'm praying SO HARD that my other baby Yuki doesn't get whatever this is, because then I will be going through this all again, and I won't have the means, after all this, to help her to the extent she would need.
I know all to well the motto of "If you can't afford a vet, don't get the pet", but when I got my 2 girls I was financially prepared for everything. Shit happens in today's job world, and I don't have very much to spend in medical expenses for myself or my babies right now. I'm doing everything I can though, and I hope it will be enough.
Please keep spreading the word through journals, tweets, facebook, ANYTHING. I just want my little girl to get better.
Sorry if this is all a jumbled mess of words; I have only gotten about 5 hours of broken up sleep in the past 48 hours and I'm exhausted from that and stress.
Previous journal about Muta: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/3594001/
This morning at 7am I took Muta to an avian and exotic vet. They gave her subcutaneous fluids and an injection for her intestinal inflammation and nausea. They also did a fecal parasite test on her, which came out negative. ECE (the disease I mentioned in my previous journal) isn't researched enough to be an "official" disease, thus it is not specifically taught about in vet school, so the vet did not say anything about it, even when I mentioned what it was and how Muta was displaying all of the telltale symptoms that medical researchers have associated with it.
Muta is able to walk around for a few minutes at a time, but then eventually falls over when her legs give out. She is still extremely weak, lethargic, and feverish. She has severe diarrhea that has dehydrated her to the point of being limp and breathing erratically. Ferrets can die within 24 hours of getting dehydrated, so it's EXTREMELY important that she keeps getting fluids.
The only way to see what is truly wrong with her intestines is to do a complete intestinal spectrum test, which shows any viruses, excess bacteria, ulcers, and/or diseases. This test costs an additional $200, and I could not afford to get this done today. The vet urged me to have this done, as well as keeping Muta hospitalized overnight to make sure she gets enough fluids, but the cost of her staying overnight there for a couple of days is WAY out of my financial range. Poor little girl, she flat out refuses to take water from her own water bowl or from a syringe. I'm just praying I can keep her hydrated and get some food into her.
I was able to pay for today's visit as well as 3 medications to give her twice daily. It breaks my heart to make her take these meds because she literally has to be held down and have them forced into her mouth, and then she cries and claws at her face and mouth because of the taste and her stress levels :(
OH and the vet also wants to see my new ferret Milo because he could very well be a carrier of whatever Muta has. I'm praying SO HARD that my other baby Yuki doesn't get whatever this is, because then I will be going through this all again, and I won't have the means, after all this, to help her to the extent she would need.
I know all to well the motto of "If you can't afford a vet, don't get the pet", but when I got my 2 girls I was financially prepared for everything. Shit happens in today's job world, and I don't have very much to spend in medical expenses for myself or my babies right now. I'm doing everything I can though, and I hope it will be enough.
Please keep spreading the word through journals, tweets, facebook, ANYTHING. I just want my little girl to get better.
Sorry if this is all a jumbled mess of words; I have only gotten about 5 hours of broken up sleep in the past 48 hours and I'm exhausted from that and stress.
I'm still here hoping <3
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/3597971/
If you hold a ferret up by the scruff of the neck, they will just hang there limply and yawn. If you give them the medicine when they hold their mouth open, you shouldn't have to hold Muta down and it should be relatively stress free. You might want an additional hand when you do this though so you have full control over the meds.
Again, I'm hoping for her full recovery. Best of luck!