Test results
Jan. 31st, 2007 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mad_andyWell, I just called the vets to get Thoth's test results... and they're kind of mixed.
I spoke to C__, practice admin person, and she gave me the chapter and verse of the report - and got caught doing so by T__, who then gave her a bollocking. He settled down when he found out it was me, though. Bit keen on vet's prerogatives, is our T__.
Anyway.
We'd sent off a whole lot of samples; obviously some adrenal tissue, and several pieces of spleen, that being enlarged as well. Oh yes, and the slides of the aspirates from the lumps under Thoth's arms and on his neck.
Aspirates - fatty lumps. Nothing to worry about.
Spleen - enlarged because of what else was going on, basically. Nothing abnormal.
Adrenals - and this is where it gets interesting, because the ex-boss turned out to have been spot on with his diagnosis; it was Cushings. T__ wasn't convinced, but the test results bear the diagnosis out, which the boss will be pleased to hear.
Unfortunately, the type of tumour in the adrenal glands is where the news drops off a bit. Normally, they're adenomas. Which means you chop it out, throw it away, job done - they don't (usually) come back, and if they do they grow slowly.
These, though? Carcinomas.
Bad.
Carcinomas don't just sit there, they grow and fracture, rip through the system and settle in any tissue the blood takes them to, and grow and grow and grow--
Thus, I've bought my little man some time. Probably a year, given that the prognosis is 'fair', according to the lab. The positive side of this is that he would have been showing symptoms for less time than I initially thought, so I did pick it up pretty quickly. With Foggy's sudden death, that had been bothering me - nice to know that I can still pick up when my beasties are poorly, no matter how wrapped up in myself I am.
So now we're just playing the waiting game, keeping an eye on him and seeing how he goes. Hopefully by the time the warm weather comes he'll have grown enough coat back to go outdoors again and live with Fuzzbutt, who is terribly bored on his own out there.
Anyway, that's the ferret news. Not much else going on - tired all the time, sleeping a lot, car will cost in the region of £700 to fix. Argh.
I spoke to C__, practice admin person, and she gave me the chapter and verse of the report - and got caught doing so by T__, who then gave her a bollocking. He settled down when he found out it was me, though. Bit keen on vet's prerogatives, is our T__.
Anyway.
We'd sent off a whole lot of samples; obviously some adrenal tissue, and several pieces of spleen, that being enlarged as well. Oh yes, and the slides of the aspirates from the lumps under Thoth's arms and on his neck.
Aspirates - fatty lumps. Nothing to worry about.
Spleen - enlarged because of what else was going on, basically. Nothing abnormal.
Adrenals - and this is where it gets interesting, because the ex-boss turned out to have been spot on with his diagnosis; it was Cushings. T__ wasn't convinced, but the test results bear the diagnosis out, which the boss will be pleased to hear.
Unfortunately, the type of tumour in the adrenal glands is where the news drops off a bit. Normally, they're adenomas. Which means you chop it out, throw it away, job done - they don't (usually) come back, and if they do they grow slowly.
These, though? Carcinomas.
Bad.
Carcinomas don't just sit there, they grow and fracture, rip through the system and settle in any tissue the blood takes them to, and grow and grow and grow--
Thus, I've bought my little man some time. Probably a year, given that the prognosis is 'fair', according to the lab. The positive side of this is that he would have been showing symptoms for less time than I initially thought, so I did pick it up pretty quickly. With Foggy's sudden death, that had been bothering me - nice to know that I can still pick up when my beasties are poorly, no matter how wrapped up in myself I am.
So now we're just playing the waiting game, keeping an eye on him and seeing how he goes. Hopefully by the time the warm weather comes he'll have grown enough coat back to go outdoors again and live with Fuzzbutt, who is terribly bored on his own out there.
Anyway, that's the ferret news. Not much else going on - tired all the time, sleeping a lot, car will cost in the region of £700 to fix. Argh.
