Hello you guys --

I have been FML-offline for a few weeks now -- not a lot of email
access and NOW I am in a Bangkok (Thailand) hospital having had a
facelift!

At any rate, I listened to Sukie's advice about bringing an Asian
ferret home through Africa, and also I got a message on ThaiVisa
(thaivisa.com) from some buffoon who says "they" have stopped selling
ferrets becasur the Thai people have realized that they are smelly
little beasts. Now of course that is not the actual wording, though
it is the flavor of the post. I will find it later and send it along.

I have taken dogs with me on trips (Mexico and France) with no problems
and quarantines (you just need recent vet certificates before travel in
eithre direction), but I can see that Asia and Africa might be
different. I could (and most definitiely would) have gotten vet tests,
etc for standard things, but I gather that some zoonotics might not be
detectable???

Abt the face lift {OT, of course), I've been wanting to do this for
a zillion years, but have always either chickened out or bowed to PC
peer pressure. But here I am, at 65, having done the deed.

I am keeping a little diary of it all via emails and photos, and it
will include some amazing *very optional* pix that I did not take
myself. The folks in the operating room documented the whole thing.
I haven't seen these yet.

If anyone is interested in my experiences, write me privately and I'll
send yuo the emails I have sent to friends and family (no pix yet) and
will happily answer questions about my Thai experiences. I have been
doing major dental work too -- dental implant, for example. I'm happy
with the results so far.

Best wishes to you all. I am craving FML fixes adn of course fert
cuddles. In a few days I should still be here at the hosp and will
be able to fet caught up with the daily FMLs. I'm only at 2/27.

I wonder if Wolfy has posted pix of my ferret indoor-outdoor setup!
I haven't seen them yet myself. The setup is far from elegaic in the
wintertime, but the bamboo and the up-high tunnels make the ferts
happy!

[Posted in FML 5543]