It has been a very sickening weekend. One I doubt I will ever forget. To family:I will not be able to see mom this Sunday. I have a 4 hour drive on that day. Bisquit is at the ferret sanctuary with pain meds, antibiotics, ointments for the eyes, fluids, soups, and anti inflammatories. We do not know if he will be able to see well again, or able to walk normally or be brain damaged. Lip is ripped, raw, skin ripped open.Tongue is lacerated. Teeth are chipped...possibly broken. Blood was dripping out of his right ear. Roof of mouth scorched and raw meat. Cannot eat unless syringe fed with pain meds in him. Say a prayer that he survives. He is in gaurded condition at this point. And he wants to live. Skin fell off his nose today.Many bruised spots on his body, and he is in pain moving or being picked up. Nothing appears to be broken, but great pain from bruising and burns on his body as pain meds wear off. Top of his feet beet red with burns. I heard a soft thumping as the laundry was in the dryer. It just bothered me to hear an odd sort of noise. My glasses steamed up when I opened the dryer from the extreme steam and heat. The heavy towels were hot, heavy and wet. Bisquit was in the back of the dryer. I am still sick to my stomach. I am sucking down antacids. You cannot imagine what his body looked like or the shock of finding his limp steaming body there. I held him in the sink and ran cold water over him, towel dried him. He moved a little. He still felt burning hot. I rinsed his body again in cold water, wrapped him, and he tried to move. I called my friend Zoo who runs a ferret sanctuary. One of her board members raced to meet me in a parking lot somewhere in between our homes, then raced to the Sanctuary. Greg...thank you SO much. Zoo and I would have had great difficulty finding each other. I am getting updates several times a day. Zoo has been getting up all night with him, and just put him on more pain meds. Thank you Zoo. To family:I will be at the hospital with mom Tuesday night and Wed. afternoon until evening unless I hear otherwise. So, as shocking as this writing is, please friends.. please do not email me right now. I just got home after another 10 1/2 hour work day. I would like to ask you all to PLEASE say a prayer for my little floor pooper that he survive this.. If anyone can save him...the lady who is nursing him now will be the one who can do it. I cannot believe what a miracle it is that I even ever met her. I never leave the dryer door open and walk away. But I had just heard news that changed everything I was going to do, and I had to race. I stepped on Bisquits poop on the floor between washer and dryer as I was sticking clothes in the dryer and went to change socks and wash off...something I have to do on a fairly regular basis with Bisquit free roaming. He must have somehow climbed into the dryer then. I have so many loads of ferret wash. I have had to use the dryer again. I keep on opening it, and pulling out everything. This is the same baby that was found in a garage...the same baby that escaped into the snow this winter when I had 2 weeks to pack up all my mothers belongings from assisted living while also seeing her in the hospital and working full time. Have to care for the others now. I am still so sick to my stomach. Sometimes there is just so much on your plate that it breaks. You can wallow in self loathing for allowing the opportunity for your baby to be very badly hurt , or try to pick up the pieces. Who would have saved his life on a Sunday? No one around here. For a split second I thought of somehow killing him so he would not suffer anymore as I saw his steaming bleeding bashed body gasp for breath when I first ran cold water over him. Zoo...I hope you realize what a God send you are. [Posted in FML 5629]