Hi, Barb, I am so very sorry about your loss. My heart goes out to you. I'm sure you gave Wiggles the best life a ferret could have, so please take consolation in that. I am posting this on FML because of your reaction to the tragedy you have just lived through. "No more second adrenal surgeries" is not the right answer. In many, many cases, the second surgery will greatly prolong the life of the ferret, and also improve the quality of life. Whenever a ferret goes into surgery, there is a real risk that what happened to Wiggles can happen. That applies to any surgery, any time you place any animal (including people) under anesthesia. I don't think you can blame Dr. Weiss, no can you attribute this to a second adrenal surgery. It could have happened with the first one, too. I know that doesn't lessen your loss at all, but I really want to make sure that you aren't advising people in a way that might harm their ferrets. Pertwee came home yesterday from his second adrenal surgery with Dr. Dan Hudson. The tumor, which wasn't there or was too small to be noticed just five weeks ago when his left adrenal gland was removed, was very, very large, so waiting long just wasn't an option for us. In addition, Pertwee's previous tumor was a malignant carcinoma, and did penetrate the capsule of the adrenal gland, so there was a real concern about the cancer not being given an opportunity to spread. In other words, not doing this surgery may have killed Pertwee. Last night, when I was transferring some of Pertwee's stuff from the travel cage to the recovery cage, he jumped out and ran off. Just hours after this surgery he led us on a merry chase, so obviously he was feeling pretty good. We then gave him his prednisone and flourocortisone dosages for the day, and offered him some of Bob Church's wonderful chicken gravy. He slurped and gobbled up the gravy hungrily, so he obviously was feeling pretty good. Every ferret is different. They all react differently. I am so sorry that things didn't work out for Wiggles, but that does *not* mean that a second adrenal surgery is necessarily a bad idea. Regards, Caity Martin [Posted in FML issue 3071]