Hi all you fert lovers!! For those of you who have had pathology done on your ferrets tissues. What is a reasonable amount of time to wait for the report to be completed? It has been five months and I haven't heard a word. I don't want to seem impatient or rude, as I wasn't charged for the service, but I would like to have the results. Now for the hard part. I need some advice and didn't know where else to ask. I hope you don't mind. My brother is terminally ill and has about 2-3 months to live. Cancer throughout his organs. He/We just found this out the end of October. We are (me)45 & (he)50 years old. He is having a very difficult time facing this. His hospice person hasn't stepped up and found a psychologist/psychiatrist for him to talk to even though he has asked for that. So, I thought I would at least get him a book that might help him. I tried to find an APPROPRIATE book for him to read as he told me he doesn't want to talk to anyone in the family about it. Does anyone have a suggestion on the title of a book that is FOR the person that is dying? A million books out there for the survivors to read. How to cope, how to care ,how to grieve. But, after about 20 hours of research not a book that is specifically for the terminally ill person to read. I finally bought "What a dying person wants (to know)." It is a start but still not quite the right book. It still talks a lot about the DR. and survivors. Any suggestions? Anyone? I hope so because I am at my wits end and I can't stop crying which doesn't help anyone. Thanks in Advance, Mary Jo & the magnificent seven (fuzzies) PS Someone, at the bookstore, suggested a book by Victor Frankl "The meaning of man" would this book really be relevant? [Posted in FML issue 4729]