Muffin: 21 Jul 06 - 25 Feb 08
My beloved Muffin's gone. :'(
She just suddenly collapsed on the evening of the 24th. Prior to that, she had been happily running on her wheel for hours consecutively every single morning.
When I brought her to our most trusted vet (the only one out of three who didn't misdiagnose her eye condition last time, and operated on her eye and cyst last time) said there wasn't any hope for her if we didn't operate. And even if we did, there wasn't much, if any, hope either. But she was in so much pain constantly, I decided to send her in. Even a 1% chance is a shot at life for her. I know my little girl loves life...
She died shortly after the operation was finished. Vet said there was a growth in her uterus, that also resulted in a distention of her stomach.
She was in so much pain prior to the operation already, that in the night she even bit herself, when she couldn't reach her gnaw stick in time. She needed something to bite on to feel better about the pain. :'( My poor girl.
I'm absolutely devstated that we don't get to spend our birthday together again. But relieved that I turned down the grad law interview last year just to spend her birthday with her. Thank God I did that...else I don't know how much more depressed I would be now.
My little girl was always with me, or in my palm when I was feeling most down. Once I even fell asleep with her in my hand. Haha, I had to search for her in the house when I woke up. She had a lot of fun running around the house. Eventually found her between the wall and my parent's wardobe, in a gap of about 1 to 2 inches wide.
Girlie didn't get enough of her almonds, sunflower seeds, and sesame when she was alive because of her eye condition. I hope she can get plently of those under the rainbow bridge. And that she has the same wheel and strawberry house that she adores. I hope she can find Pudding too, her first hamster friend, and all the rest of our hamster angels. Rest in peace my sweetheart.
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She didn't have any bleeding or pus coming out from below, like usual uterine cases. Couldn't tell... I don't know the patch of fur loss has anything to do with it? That patch was first shaved off by the vet last time, when she had a cyst on her back removed. It came back sparse, then very strangely a symmetrical sparse patch appeared on the other side. She has always had a bit of fungal thing on her skin that never really went away since she was a young ham, so I didn't think that much about it. Also, she runs so much on her wheel, and I thought it could be from abrasion, since it's strangely symmetrical. I didn't see her grooming excessively that patch. Sigh.
Muffin: 21 Jul 06 - 25 Feb 08
My beloved Muffin's gone. :'(
She just suddenly collapsed on the evening of the 24th. Prior to that, she had been happily running on her wheel for hours consecutively every single morning.
When I brought her to our most trusted vet (the only one out of three who didn't misdiagnose her eye condition last time, and operated on her eye and cyst last time) said there wasn't any hope for her if we didn't operate. And even if we did, there wasn't much, if any, hope either. But she was in so much pain constantly, I decided to send her in. Even a 1% chance is a shot at life for her. I know my little girl loves life...
She died shortly after the operation was finished. Vet said there was a growth in her uterus, that also resulted in a distention of her stomach.
She was in so much pain prior to the operation already, that in the night she even bit herself, when she couldn't reach her gnaw stick in time. She needed something to bite on to feel better about the pain. :'( My poor girl.
I'm absolutely devstated that we don't get to spend our birthday together again. But relieved that I turned down the grad law interview last year just to spend her birthday with her. Thank God I did that...else I don't know how much more depressed I would be now.
My little girl was always with me, or in my palm when I was feeling most down. Once I even fell asleep with her in my hand. Haha, I had to search for her in the house when I woke up. She had a lot of fun running around the house. Eventually found her between the wall and my parent's wardobe, in a gap of about 1 to 2 inches wide.
Girlie didn't get enough of her almonds, sunflower seeds, and sesame when she was alive because of her eye condition. I hope she can get plently of those under the rainbow bridge. And that she has the same wheel and strawberry house that she adores. I hope she can find Pudding too, her first hamster friend, and all the rest of our hamster angels. Rest in peace my sweetheart.
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She didn't have any bleeding or pus coming out from below, like usual uterine cases. Couldn't tell... I don't know the patch of fur loss has anything to do with it? That patch was first shaved off by the vet last time, when she had a cyst on her back removed. It came back sparse, then very strangely a symmetrical sparse patch appeared on the other side. She has always had a bit of fungal thing on her skin that never really went away since she was a young ham, so I didn't think that much about it. Also, she runs so much on her wheel, and I thought it could be from abrasion, since it's strangely symmetrical. I didn't see her grooming excessively that patch. Sigh.