I've been asked again keep people updated. The results of the surgeries i had this year are good, and the pressure in the eye that was done first has gone down still a little more. No need to ask any more about those. The abdominal problem is fixed, and my eyes will be checked again later this year. Thank goodness that Macs are as eye friendly as they are though I'd like some more changes on that regard and would love it if all PDFs, websites, and Google's book search allowed enlargement, and if places stopped using light color print and small fonts especially for website controls. The work related to Dad's will is daunting, but his time with dementia and repeated illnesses was more stressful. 93 was a bit too old for him, I'm afraid. I've sent off the 25 pounds of old photos he had, his scrapbook, etc. to my sister and her daughter. Something i never knew was that when he was stationed on Okinawa he got a wonderful photo of the Japanese delegation changing planes on it's way to sign the treaty at the end of WWII. Dad had been exempt from service because he provided essential war support as a watchmaker with Arma but he volunteered. Steve remains such wonderful support. I'll tell you, I really hit the jackpot 29 and 1/2 years ago when I got up my courage and asked out the nerd in the dorm room next door to me. (We were both adults living in a dorm quad for international students, grad students, and adult students at Stony Brook, and lived there for a short while after we wed before moving to married student housing near the hospital.) I knew that waiting can lead to finding just the right person but I sure thought that it would take longer than it did, probably because an aunt didn't find the right person till she was 40 and he was 50 but then they had about 45 great years together. The ferrets are marvelous, too. Whizbang isn't a good surgical candidate so she had a Lupron shot. She is starting to get used to going there so I think that maybe in the future she will show off what we do with her belly. She loves to have her belly kissed and even more loved belly raspberries and when I ask is wants me to "blurp" her (raspberry) she will do a big backbend in my hands presenting her belly. Pivot is playing the piano, too, now, so it isn't just Telemna playing it. Piv isn't as good, though may be over time... Recently Telemna has developed a crush on the singing of Emmy Lou Harris and tries to play along like she does when she hears Liza Minnelli sing. Telemna does NOT like being filmed, though, so we've never captured anything which is better than the one piano piece of hers on YouTube, though she finally let a houseguest and the washer repair man hear her play so she is less shy about it now. So far Pivot's playing has been too sporadic to even try filming her. Pivot and Mornie are still not fully accepting each other, but luckily the fights and poofs are way down and not serious. Besides, Pivot (bred by Danee DeVore) can jump (sideways, even) over two ferrets next to each other so Morney is now outclassed in some forms of athleticism. Mornie decided this morning during a time outside their room to create a bed for herself in the middle of the dining room table with placemats. Very cute and she apparently felt it was worth the climb. She has roaned on her tail and her rear end but the rest of her except her white patches remains dark so she looks a tad strange in terms of fur coloring, and she injured a hip (not seriously) which took about 2 weeks to heal because she kept re-injuring it leading to her having some resting time of her own long-term till 3 days ago so she finally seems to have decided to stop the more athletic of her climbing and shoving activities. She is the one who liked to jump up from the table till she could catch the hanging candelabra in hands and play flying trapeze on it. She was also a consistent barrier defeater despite being small. Hubble remains an incredible cuddler. He also likes to fall asleep in my arms and begins drooling the minute he crashes. Hub likes silky and satiny feeling fabrics, so if I am in a night gown or shirt with that sort of feel and say "nightgown" while kneeling down to look for him under the trunk he will slide out and climb down my bodice. Hilbert has been protecting me a lot recently since a few pollens have set off my asthma. I have to be very careful when i am in the Balans chair because he will have his tail or sometimes a foot in a bad place while he monitors me. Okay, now due to requests from my sister and a cousin I need to get back to going through some old papers related to family history and websites that give a feeling and lend depth. After finding their marriage certificate I've been reading about where Amelia Fothergill and Robert Graves were wed in 1844 and where she lived (Fleet Street) which has me looking at the history of then and before for that area and sharing with relatives: The Church where they wed has a history involving many writers, publishing, and Ben Franklin, as well as being the inspiration for tiered wedding cakes: http://www.hiddenlondon.com/stbrides.htm Oates was pilloried around there earlier but it is fascinating history about what extents some people will go without just cause: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Oates News of Fleet Street at the time: <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rogers/Genealogy/Snippetsfrom1850s.html> and a lot of earlier history was in: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ It's a welcome change from all of the work associated with the will. I want to also learn more about Hoo at that time whenever i finally get the chance. Anyway, thanks to those who gave me the excuse to take a break! Normally, I'm so busy these days that I'd just have hit "delete" but today it really does help to take a break. Please, stop worrying and I sent this publicly so let the others know if they don't spot this that they can stop, too, okay? I'm fine. Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html [Posted in FML 6038]