A couple of days ago we had a very sick possum brought into us. His name is Malcolm and had been hand reared by Nina from Ninas ark. He had been gradually going down hill, been off colour. A blood test showed that he was extremely anaemic. In fact the test showed he needed a blood transfusion immediately or he would die. Now we have never done a blood transfusion on a possum before. We collected and cross matched some blood from a healthy adult donor possum and gave Malcolm some nice fresh blood. The effect was almost immediate - Malcolm went from being flat and hardly able to move to being very active and very hungry. He hasn't stopped eating since. The first photo is a before shot and you can see how sick he is. The second one is us giving Malcolm the blood and the last one is of Malcolm as he is today - full of life.
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Excellent result. Thanks to all of you who made the effort. Any idea what was the underlying cause of the anemia?
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