I'm posting on behalf of a friend of mine who has two ferrets and is not online. Both her ferrets (approx 3 years old MF sprites) had bilateral adrenalectomies about two weeks ago. I'm pretty sure they didn't do cryosurgery on the right adrenal in both cases. One of the girls, Sashi, has seemed to have bounced back fairly well but the other girl, Spunky, is not doing well at all, not eating, not acting herself. She's always been one of those ferrets that's on the delicate side but Wendy says she is all but skin and bone now. The vet has Spunky (and possibly Sashi too, though I'm not sure) on prednisone, and that helped a bit at first but I think it's all but lost its effectiveness. Spunk has been in and out of the vet (my friend is a pharmacist and a very conscientious ferret mommy) but the vet she goes to is not particularly ferret specific and is at a loss as to what to do for her. Wendy also mentioned that Spunk has been grinding her teeth, which I was under the assumption was a sign of nausea/potential ulcer so I faxed her a copy of the Helicobacter FAQ for her to take to Spunky's next vet visit. After some cajoling, they're going to try the Amoxil/Biaxin protocol, but in the meantime I thought I would ask for some advice here. Spunky's surgery took quite a while, I figure partially from the vet not being terribly experienced with surgery and doing the non-cryo right adrenal. Is this something other people have run across-a ferret undergoing a long and difficult adrenal surgery having a lot of difficulty eating afterwards? Spunky is one of those ferrets who doesn't eat anything but her food-getting baby food, ensure, pedialyte, etc, into her is next to impossible. Any suggestions I can pass onto Wendy in this situation would be greatly appreciated. I've been after her to take the ferrets to Dr. Weiss (thank god he's so close by) and I'd bet she's going to be paying the good doc a visit soon. So other than that, any experiences anyone has to share would be wonderful. Thanks again, Laura [Posted in FML issue 3148]