Storm the fighter

[Die Fledermaus]

dosergirl said:

The surgical glue that they use is like the same kind that they use during Boxing matches...if you have ever seen a boxing match you've seen that. When someone gets cut , they squirt it with water and glue it shut....send them back out to get some other place busted open

But slapping it on for several minutes in a boxing ring is one thing; permanently sealing up a deep incision is another.

I guess I am just uninformed on this matter. I did hear of surgical staples, and surgical sutures that dissolved and do not have to be removed ( that too was a 'fun" procedure for me! ).

[jeannie]

That's not really that old though. Maybe she is older - it's hard to know with pet store hamsters. Puck is a year and 8 months, and he's not acting like that. I hope she's okay. I'll be thinking of her.

What are her symptoms?

[Die Fledermaus]

Jeannie said:

That's not really that old though. Maybe she is older - it's hard to know with pet store hamsters. Puck is a year and 8 months, and he's not acting like that. I hope she's okay. I'll be thinking of her.

What are her symptoms?

Yea, I know she is not that old (maybe) in chronological months, although three of her children have already died, as you know. But the other nine are fine.

She is just, bit by bit, incrementally, slowing down. She forages and eats, albeit with legs that seem a tad stiff, although she devours her brocolli, parsley, egg whites, baby food, and at least pouches and stashes her mix. Much of it seems to disappear, so someone is eating it!

There are no "symptoms" per se, other than the general slowness that reminds me of my mother (less the drooling!).
She takes more naps. Eyes look fine; no smells; normal poops; normal breathing; mostly normal activity - just slower, and no more wheel usage.

Curiously, I first noticed this after her run-in with Ebony (you recall the head bite). I may be wacky to even think this, but if a bite is deep enough could it cause minor brain damage??
Eh, maybe just a coincidence.

Oh yea, Princess (RIP) was frisky and happy until her stroke or heart attack. She MUST have been well over 2, perhaps 2 1/2, so go figure. Maybe it is best to be frisky right up until the last five minutes - five horrible minutes I won't soon forget, unfortunately.

I wondered about Puck's age. Hope you have at least another happy year together, or more (based on some of the very old ages Kane cited with his). I am sure you well know to live every day like the last, as you never can be sure. . .


Anyway, I've been up to my eyes busy with that historical online research thing, and catching up on mails to my Army friend and those in Russia, Japan, and Hungary. Catch ya later. Have to entertain the horde now, as soon as The Simpsons is over. ;D

[jeannie]

It sounds like she is doing okay. Pet store hamsters are often older than we think. They just will keep them at the store until they sell, and sometimes it takes a while.

I have a general sense of Puck's age, because he was a little tot when I got him - around 2 months or so.

He is not as active as he used to be either, but he does run the wheel at night. His favorite past times are sleeping and eating, but he's been this way for a long time. He has a very even temperament, which is why he poses so well.

[Die Fledermaus]

Rainy today looked fine; the deal is her stiffish (is that a word?) back legs, and the fact that she appears to take spontaneous short naps while foraging, as if it was quite fatiguing. Her back hind foot seems very stiff or paralyzed - the toes look permanently clasped or closed, if you know what I mean. So, she actually once in a while topples over when grooming.

So, that's the description. It does not appear progressive; i.e., it has been like this for weeks.

But otherwise she seems OK. Today I served her up some scrambled eggs on toast with pepper and tabasco sauce and she gobbled it down, pouching the rest. The broccoli and parsely keeps disappearing, etc.

So, I guess she is alright. I do wonder about the origins of that stiff back leg. . .

Best to Puck.