Post by dorena261-Natalia on Sept 28, 2015 3:52:50 GMT -5
On thursday around 10:30am my Nyx closed her eyes forever and got her wings. My first love, my special silver princess, the one responsible for my love and commitment to fuzzies and a raw diet.
Nyx was a rescue 5 years ago, she came to me already sick, she had adrenal. Some of you already know, we were struggling for years with various diseases, she had probably every illness which an average ferret can get. But she was active and happy ferret all this time.
She had adrenal, insulinoma, eosinophilic enteritis, IBD, lymphoma, heart problems, and the last diagnosis was chronic renal failure. More than 2 years ago our vet wanted to put her to sleep because she was very ill, she had liver problems and a very low blood glucose with the general poor condition, our vet thought she can't recover. Her will, persistence, daily fluids, drugs that were purchased by who know how ... she pulled up. Then my friend (soon to be a vet) Maja, told me to try to switch her to raw, and then things became better. The liver enzymes were better, glucose level became stable without therapy, but she was regularly monitored by a vet and we were measuring glucose almost daily for a while. she was full recovered.
In the meantime, untill now she was really bad twice (I said a hundred times that she should be called Fenyx not just Nyx), but every time she showed a will to live so much that I just couldn't give up on her.
Last diagnosis, 7-8 months ago, was chronic renal failure and then our last story begins...
This time it was different ...
It started three days before with low body temperature and shallow and rapid breathing. She was still walking, eating, pooping, peeing, drinking water from cat's bowl (she loved that), and still had that look that says "do not let me go." She was slightly dehydrated, so we started with warm fluids and constant heat with bottles of hot water in a towel. I couldn't sleep, she was with me all the time.
A day before I thought she was worse and I went to a local vet to see exactly what the situation is. The breathing couldn't be heard very well, her heart beats were a bit slower, but her temperature was still good with all those heating. The day she passed we were supposed to go to Ljubljana to her vet, and the local vet said she will survive until morning, i should monitor her and I can always come up to her ambulance. When we got home I tried to feed her but she no longer wanted to eat by herself. The whole night heating, feeding, fluids... didn't work out.
That morning, her glucose had fallen to 2.7 and her temperature was about 36'C and she looked at me with those eyes "when you know it's time." I took her, put her in a travel cage and went to a local vet to help her pass over the rainbow bridge
we measured her body temperature which has already fallen to 34.7 and glucose was 2. I didn't have to think anymore, it was a time ...
Her former roommates had the opportunity to say goodbye to her, and I advise everyone to do the same when your beloved ferret passes. The rest of the gang will cope better...
I gave her to a local vet to make a necropsies so she can learn something, it's the last good thing Nyx can do, to help some other ferret in the future.
she will be cremated, my love deserves to be with me forever
Goodbye Nyx, you'll have a special place in my heart, and you will never, ever be forgotten
Nyx was a rescue 5 years ago, she came to me already sick, she had adrenal. Some of you already know, we were struggling for years with various diseases, she had probably every illness which an average ferret can get. But she was active and happy ferret all this time.
She had adrenal, insulinoma, eosinophilic enteritis, IBD, lymphoma, heart problems, and the last diagnosis was chronic renal failure. More than 2 years ago our vet wanted to put her to sleep because she was very ill, she had liver problems and a very low blood glucose with the general poor condition, our vet thought she can't recover. Her will, persistence, daily fluids, drugs that were purchased by who know how ... she pulled up. Then my friend (soon to be a vet) Maja, told me to try to switch her to raw, and then things became better. The liver enzymes were better, glucose level became stable without therapy, but she was regularly monitored by a vet and we were measuring glucose almost daily for a while. she was full recovered.
In the meantime, untill now she was really bad twice (I said a hundred times that she should be called Fenyx not just Nyx), but every time she showed a will to live so much that I just couldn't give up on her.
Last diagnosis, 7-8 months ago, was chronic renal failure and then our last story begins...
This time it was different ...
It started three days before with low body temperature and shallow and rapid breathing. She was still walking, eating, pooping, peeing, drinking water from cat's bowl (she loved that), and still had that look that says "do not let me go." She was slightly dehydrated, so we started with warm fluids and constant heat with bottles of hot water in a towel. I couldn't sleep, she was with me all the time.
A day before I thought she was worse and I went to a local vet to see exactly what the situation is. The breathing couldn't be heard very well, her heart beats were a bit slower, but her temperature was still good with all those heating. The day she passed we were supposed to go to Ljubljana to her vet, and the local vet said she will survive until morning, i should monitor her and I can always come up to her ambulance. When we got home I tried to feed her but she no longer wanted to eat by herself. The whole night heating, feeding, fluids... didn't work out.
That morning, her glucose had fallen to 2.7 and her temperature was about 36'C and she looked at me with those eyes "when you know it's time." I took her, put her in a travel cage and went to a local vet to help her pass over the rainbow bridge
we measured her body temperature which has already fallen to 34.7 and glucose was 2. I didn't have to think anymore, it was a time ...
Her former roommates had the opportunity to say goodbye to her, and I advise everyone to do the same when your beloved ferret passes. The rest of the gang will cope better...
I gave her to a local vet to make a necropsies so she can learn something, it's the last good thing Nyx can do, to help some other ferret in the future.
she will be cremated, my love deserves to be with me forever
Goodbye Nyx, you'll have a special place in my heart, and you will never, ever be forgotten
She fought for so long because she had such a loving ferrant to live with. Now she is at peace and space. 