Hi All :-) I had to write and brag about two of my kids. Their names are Doris and Billy. Here is the short version of their story. I had made appointments with Dr. Weiss to do an adrenal surgery on George and remove a couple of painful mass cell tumors on Buddy. I am from Idaho and Dr. Weiss is in Maryland. I am a truck driver and I was able to work it out with my company in such a way that I was able to take three days off in Maryland. NOTE: I have put the full story with a bunch of pictures on my website. You can find the link at the bottom of my main ferret page. The address is: http://home.earthlink.net/~sammysrefuge . The following are a couple of excepts from my website: "Dr. Weiss had a surgery scheduled before ours, so we all sat and played in the waiting room. Suddenly one of the Vet Techs came rushing into the room. She started to explain that the ferret that was being operated on was losing too much blood and was dying. She started to ask if they could use one of my kids for a donor. I stopped her in mid sentence and just asked who Dr. Weiss wanted. The Tech replied, "The biggest ferret that is not having surgery." I quickly handed her Billy, and off they went in a rush to the operating room." <break> "Everything was quiet again for a couple of minutes and then out came the Tech again. She said they needed another one. Since Doris was the only other one that was not scheduled for surgery, I quickly handed her to the Tech. I mentioned to the Tech that if they needed to, they could use Buddy as a donor and we would just schedule to have Buddy's surgery for another day. She said that she would tell Dr. Weiss and off she went with Doris. This time it was about 15 minutes later when the Tech brought out a groggy Billy to me. He was still trying to wake up after the anesthesia. He was followed a few minutes later by a still sleeping Doris. It was then that the news came. The blood transfusions had been successful! Billy and Doris saved Sasha's life! They were Hero's! Dr. Weiss later told me what Sasha's surgery entailed. The following is a quote from Dr. Weiss. ". . . that the tumor was a very large right adrenal tumor which involved the liver, vena cava and had to be dissected free from the aorta. We ligated the vena cava, and removed a lobe of affected liver." Sasha went home with her mom and dad the day after the surgery." There are pictures of Sasha on my website. The pictures were taken only a few hours after the surgery. It was amazing to see how alert she was. Here is one last excerpt from m website. "Billy and Doris are up playing around. They suffered absolutely no ill effects from donating blood. Well, that's not completely true. You see, they are suffering from enlarged ego syndrome. :-) Since I explained to them that they are heroes, they expect their raisins to be given to them on a silver platter. I, of course, gladly comply with their wishes. I am just so proud of them that I can barely stand myself." Thanks for reading the blabberings of a VERY PROUD ferret daddy. Jason, Doris, Buddy, George, and Billy http://home.earthlink.net/~sammysrefuge [Posted in FML issue 3007]