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I'm sorry I'm being such a downer lately. 2020 just isn't playing nice.
Since my last update, I've had two of our three ferrets have to have surgery for cancer. Monkey was what's called a chordoma. It's a bone/nerve type of cancer. That sounds super scary but thankfully it's somewhat common in ferrets. Little guy had to have surgery and have about half his tail removed, to ensure clean margins and that it doesn't come back. (If chordomas are left along, they will grow up the spine and cause paralysis, incontinence, etc) LITERALLY 24 hours later, his cagemate Chonk came down with a horrible swelling in his left foreleg, and considerable pain. We rushed him to the ER overnight, and the vets had to double and triple check everything because the data was as unusual as my tumor. While we waited for a full analysis on a needle biopsy, his pain exceeded the amount that the pain killers could knock out, so we went with Dr Bricker's advice and amputated Chonk's foreleg. Dr Bricker took some wide margins just to be safe, as he really didn't like the look of it when he got in there, and the biopsy indeed came back as osteosarcoma, a really aggressive one. They estimated 1-3 months before it fully metastasized. (Osteosarcoma, even when a clean margin is obtained, is notorious for floating in the bloodstream and cropping up some other random spot.) So far, so good. We've made it past the 2 month mark with a clean xray and bill of health so fingers crossed that he gets to keep visiting his regular vet Dr Wolfe for years to come.
My kitty, Tani, has been diagnosed with asthma and hyperthyroidism since January, but neither are shocking or life-threatening at her levels. She stresses easily, so her vet and I decided that the medication treatment for asthma would be more problematic than helpful (since stress aggravates asthma). She'd been doing the transdermal gel treatment for her thyroid, to avoid the stress of pills. GUESS WHAT. Tani is now allergic to a component of the medicine, so we had to stop administering it, at the vet's approval. We had her on the really costly food, but there's a really costly cure for hyperthyroidism, if she's a good candidate. So far, her heart and kidney levels are both potentially okay, so we are waiting to hear back from the specialist to see if she can have the treatment that would cure her thyroid.
I'm still without work for now, COVID and all. I applied for school but I'm not eligible for most any of the financial assistance, short of some loans, so I'm not sure what we're going to do. I'm looking into other options for the same degree that's not the local community college potentially. One of the requirements of the local school is that in order to apply to the Actual program (i'm in pre-requisites right now) requires that I also be working in the vet field and get recommendations from vet techs, of my skills doing tech stuff. I don't get how I'm supposed to get references of me working as a vet tech... before I'm a vet tech. If I can just do that, shouldn't I just ... get my hours and challenge the darn test instead of spending 10k on a AAS?
I've also been struggling with other health issues that don't have any correlation or crossover from my desmoid tumor scare or surgery. Trying to get in with my doctor to talk about some of them and find something to help with the chronic pain and other chronic symptoms. I still don't have any stamina or endurance back from my surgery from 5 months ago.
TLDR; two ferrets had surgery for cancer. One is okay, one might die in a month. Cat is sick, needs expensive treatment. My current school option is complicated and stressful. Still no job. I need warranty coverage on my %*$& body.
I'm ready for the light at the end of the tunnel, please.
Since my last update, I've had two of our three ferrets have to have surgery for cancer. Monkey was what's called a chordoma. It's a bone/nerve type of cancer. That sounds super scary but thankfully it's somewhat common in ferrets. Little guy had to have surgery and have about half his tail removed, to ensure clean margins and that it doesn't come back. (If chordomas are left along, they will grow up the spine and cause paralysis, incontinence, etc) LITERALLY 24 hours later, his cagemate Chonk came down with a horrible swelling in his left foreleg, and considerable pain. We rushed him to the ER overnight, and the vets had to double and triple check everything because the data was as unusual as my tumor. While we waited for a full analysis on a needle biopsy, his pain exceeded the amount that the pain killers could knock out, so we went with Dr Bricker's advice and amputated Chonk's foreleg. Dr Bricker took some wide margins just to be safe, as he really didn't like the look of it when he got in there, and the biopsy indeed came back as osteosarcoma, a really aggressive one. They estimated 1-3 months before it fully metastasized. (Osteosarcoma, even when a clean margin is obtained, is notorious for floating in the bloodstream and cropping up some other random spot.) So far, so good. We've made it past the 2 month mark with a clean xray and bill of health so fingers crossed that he gets to keep visiting his regular vet Dr Wolfe for years to come.
My kitty, Tani, has been diagnosed with asthma and hyperthyroidism since January, but neither are shocking or life-threatening at her levels. She stresses easily, so her vet and I decided that the medication treatment for asthma would be more problematic than helpful (since stress aggravates asthma). She'd been doing the transdermal gel treatment for her thyroid, to avoid the stress of pills. GUESS WHAT. Tani is now allergic to a component of the medicine, so we had to stop administering it, at the vet's approval. We had her on the really costly food, but there's a really costly cure for hyperthyroidism, if she's a good candidate. So far, her heart and kidney levels are both potentially okay, so we are waiting to hear back from the specialist to see if she can have the treatment that would cure her thyroid.
I'm still without work for now, COVID and all. I applied for school but I'm not eligible for most any of the financial assistance, short of some loans, so I'm not sure what we're going to do. I'm looking into other options for the same degree that's not the local community college potentially. One of the requirements of the local school is that in order to apply to the Actual program (i'm in pre-requisites right now) requires that I also be working in the vet field and get recommendations from vet techs, of my skills doing tech stuff. I don't get how I'm supposed to get references of me working as a vet tech... before I'm a vet tech. If I can just do that, shouldn't I just ... get my hours and challenge the darn test instead of spending 10k on a AAS?
I've also been struggling with other health issues that don't have any correlation or crossover from my desmoid tumor scare or surgery. Trying to get in with my doctor to talk about some of them and find something to help with the chronic pain and other chronic symptoms. I still don't have any stamina or endurance back from my surgery from 5 months ago.
TLDR; two ferrets had surgery for cancer. One is okay, one might die in a month. Cat is sick, needs expensive treatment. My current school option is complicated and stressful. Still no job. I need warranty coverage on my %*$& body.
I'm ready for the light at the end of the tunnel, please.
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