hi everyone one of our fuzzies, fetch, just had adrenal surgery about two weeks ago. he's doing great now. he's just as "fetchy" as he was before but, there's one problem. fetch started off by having that classical sign of adrenal disease...hair loss. but the weird thing was that he also started getting these strange blisters/ hot spots on his body. they didin't seem to bother him, but we were really worried. they would form scabs, but i was afraid that they would get infected because he was biting at them. he acted like they didn't hurt, but it looked painful to me. poor fetchy looked horrible!! hair loss was bad enough, and then to have scabs too...he was a mess! poor guy! so anyways, we obviously made a vet appointment for him right away. to no surprise he was diagnosed with adrenal disease. our vet said that the blisters/ hot spots were a result of an hormonal imbalance from adrenal disease. he said it caused ferrets to excessively itch, which was what was happening to fetch. so that day we scheduled surgery for fetch for the following week. we were also sent home with a prescription for melatonin. he said it would help to relieve the itchiness and help him to grow his hair back. so we started giving him the medicine that night, and a week later he had surgery (one adrenal gland removed, amongst other things, of course). well, it's been about two weeks now, and his incision has healed wonderfully and he's as happy as ever. however, he's starting to get those blisters again. so tomorrow i'm going to call the vet and see what he thinks. anyways, i was just wondering if anyone else has had this happen to one of their fuzzies and what was done to fix it. or if anyone had any advice or stories that were similar that they could share with us. two other fuzzies of ours have had surgery for insulinoma/adrenal disease previous to fetch. actually, we've had three surgeries in about two and a half months. the other two that had surgey never had these problems. one , bear, had the hair loss (but it's grown back now), but not the blisters/hot spots. the other one, obie, luckily had none of the symptoms of adrenal disease. we love him to death no matter what he looks like. i'm not concerned with how long it takes him to grow his hair back, if he even gets it all back. we're just worried about his "boo- boo's." any info would be greatly appreciated!!!! thanks, melanie p.s. thank you to all of those that gave us suggestions on cheap litter for multiple ferrets. we've been using the wood stove pellets. they work great!!!!! p.s.s. we've recently adopted (more like saved) two new fuzzies from another family. we now have eight fuzzy babies (hashi, bear, obie, sugggie, fetch, kobe, vinny, and kodos) !!!!!!!!!!! [Posted in FML issue 4268]