Mojo will be leaving us soon

Last Monday at Mojo's monthly Lupron appointment, Dr. Edling did an ultrasound because I wanted to see why his stomach felt hard and how his prostate cysts were doing. She found a large abdominal mass. I went back on Wednesday to have it aspirated, and she found it was completely solid. She took some samples, and I was hoping that it would be something like lymphoma.

It's not.

It's a carcinoma, and based on the location, she thinks it might be related to his adrenal disease. It can't be removed because of where it is and because of his heart murmur. She would usually prescribe pred to help make him feel better (it wouldn't actually affect the size of the carcinoma), but in his case she's concerned that it might have negative effects on his prostate issue. She gave him about a month, unless the mass comes through the abdominal wall in the meantime. This would cause bleeding into his abdomen, a drop in blood pressure, and he would pass away. She said this shouldn't be painful for him.

So all we can do now is love him and spoil him rotten for the time we have left with him. He's sleeping in my lap even as I type this. That's all he does anymore - sleep. But he still pigs out on duck soup, and he still has that old Mojo look in his eye, so I know he's fighting it.





Today's ferret tip is to take your ferret to the vet regularly. If you don't know what's normal in your ferret's system, you won't know what's abnormal!

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