After several month's our new vet's arm is healed so Warp ( age 5 and 3/4 with adrenal and mast cell tumors) and Meeteetse (age 7 and 1/2 with mast cell tumors) will go in for their surgical evaluations next week, and then probably surgery for at least one the week after. Our old vet, Hanan Caine -- the BEST ferret vet we have EVER found -- moved to the East Village (St. Mark's vet hospital) to be near his lady love so he are using the vet he trained for ferret needs, Joe Martins. This will be our first surgery with him, and unfortunately, Warp is tricky to intubate. If you sent me mail at all recently it's GONE. Just count on it; okay? Was STILL having problems ever since I got a post titled "Child Missing" which carried something nasty to the Eudora on my Mac. Had to finally go to another e-mail program which is too small to be comfy for my eyes until Eudora could be rebuilt from the ground up. Lost some things with the new program since it has a convention I wasn't used to, and lost all my Eudora things that weren't saved elsewhere. Isn't it so sweet of people to attach computer diseases to programs that they figure that people will want to read in case they can help someone? Bugs me that I lost Bob's most recent dialogues and some others I REALLY wanted before I could fold them into other locations as well. Hey, Bob is among those who let people know when what they are writing is hypothetical, then go on to say WHY the premises might be of interest and at times give references -- VERY professional conduct all around for all the folks who do those things. Besides, I was student curator of a comparative mammalian osteology collection for the anatomy dept. of a major medical school for almost five years an age ago (back in the 1970s into '80) so even in the start when I read his osteology comments I knew that he had the background to know whereof he spoke on the topic, and I am very impressed by what I have seen so far of his reference list -- only the first several hundred or so and only through about the first 1/4 or 1/3 of the alphabet. (Don't recall off-hand exactly where it stopped so far.) [Posted in FML issue 3021]