Hello! Special thoughts to those of you with sick babies or fuzzies waiting at the Bridge. I posted a few days ago regarding my Rascal and wanted to take a moment to thank all of you for keeping him in your thoughts, prayers and for sending advice. I tried to respond personally to each; I apologize if I left anyone out. A big thanks to Hope for the kind message. This is such a wonderful group of people. The radiologist finally got back with his vet on Tuesday. Turns out he has a non-mineralized mass in his bladder. She was unable to differentiate between lymphoma or carcinoma, but it is highly likely that the mass is cancerous. The vet also said one kidney looked normal but the other showed signs of aging. All of his other organs were unremarkable. She recommended removal of the mass, so my brave little boy will be going into surgery on Monday. She will be opening up his bladder and removing what she can of the mass (hopefully all) and then the mass gets sent away to be studied or have whatever happens to masses. A few people told me about Essiac which I purchased and also purchased Flor-Essence. I spoke with the vet about this and she wants to wait until she can check his glucose (on Monday) before starting him on it- wants to make sure his glucose level isn't too low, because she said that it can lower that. He was extra playful this morning. Unfortunately he didnt want to play any tonight. He even fought me when I gave him his meds. But I decorated our Christmas tree tonight. Not knowing what his background is, I just wanted to make sure that he gets the chance to play with all the special Christmas ornaments down on the bottom of the tree and all the Nutcrackers whose behinds Princess always needs to sniff- Im sure Rascal will need to as well. Since he wasnt interested in seeing it tonight, I am just going to pray that he will be home soon after tomorrow and can enjoy the tree and gifts and bows then. Im scared, Im nervous. Im just ready to get it all over with so the vet can call me and tell me everything is wonderful, Rascal is doing just fine. At this point I am just going to learn from Rascal. With all this going on- visits to the vet, pokes, shaved belly, tests, x-rays, ultrasounds, nasty Baytril, urinary infections, a mass in his belly- Rascal is still a loveable, sweet, playful ferret (Princess would just say "aggravating":). If he can be positive, so can I. But just for extra good measure, please send some good thoughts, prayers, positive energy to Rascal Monday. Ill be squeezing him with constant hugging and annoying him with way too many kisses. Hopefully we will beat this thing! Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Tara, Princess Peapie, and Royal Rascal Ratscallion [Posted in FML issue 4711]