To the anonymous poster who questioned Nell's bad luck: I hope you never have a string of bad luck that you have no control over. It's not fun. In 2010, in the course of TWELVE WEEKS, I watched my Mom die, had a bad car accident (got rear ended by a pickup truck), my son got a concussion while he was 3 hrs away at camp, I held my Dad's hand while *he* died, & I had a total knee replacement. Unfortunately, just about everyone will have a bad string of luck at least once in their lives. I hope that, when that time comes for *you*, you won't have to go out of your way to defend yourself & explain to people, over & over & over again, why you're not trying to pull the wool over your detractor's eyes. And, just to keep this at least minimally relevant to the list, my 4 ferrets are doing fine. Lin [Posted in FML 7725]