Dooks! Best wishes and good vibes to any sick or unhappy fuzzies - may the days ahead be filled with love and kisses for you. Well, I'm posting an update on my Jerry. He had his surgery today and the skin tumors were removed - atleast the two seeming most indicative of the problem. Here's the other problem. We went ahead with the exploratory adrenal surgery to discover a large tumor in the right adrenal gland, which is the one that's hard to get to --next to the vena cava. I believe he said the tumor is actually attached to the vena cava. My vet, having never performed an right adrenalectomy nor seen one done, did not remove it and recommended me to a specialist in a neighboring town. Though it's probably not the skin tumors which are the problem here, I'm still going to send them off for biopsy. If it's another problem all together, I need to know. Jerry is 7 and a good bit FAT!!! He's just over 5lbs now, and he's not a big fuzzbutt - just a fat one - which is another concern when getting so close to s major artery. So, I'm asking my friends here on the FML for advice. Does anyone have statistics on right adrenalectomies? What are the chances he might bleed out or that after surgery the blood wouldn't find another path to his extremities. (It seems that the vena cava may actually have to just be done away with? - but I'm not positive I understood that right). Cost is another concern, (though minor - I'd sell my two front teeth to help my boy.) I'm wondering about the feasibility of other courses of action. There are meds out there which could control the symptoms without having the tumor removed - anybody know about how effective they can be? If anyone can help me out with some advice, I'm really in need. I just don't know what the best course of action is here! It's always been so cut and dry with Jerry - this is the problem, here's how we're gonna fix it. I need to talk to our vet some more, but I'd really appreciate any advice you guys might be able to offer - especially from all you wonderfully kind vets out there. :0) I could really use a success story or two. So, I can hopefully take the baby home tonight - though I've packed him a bag incase I can't. I just want to have him home with me and Stimy, give him kisses and make him comfy. Everybody send some good vibes to the Blacksburg, VA area, would ya? Worried, Kim and Stimy (and the very groggy) Jerry [Posted in FML issue 3202]