Well hello; I've been reading the news letters for a couple of weeks now, and thought I might submit my efforts to so far successfully help my Timmy survive what in early Nov. was diagnosed by Dr. Brown in Ill. as lymphoma. Timmy was getting lethargic & not eating when I was in Ind., & a vet there thought it was a blockage so we went thru a week of Ferretone & baby Fleet enema twice a day. He started nibbling dry food then stopped. I was going to visit friends in Ill anyway so Saw Dr. Susan Brown the expert who took an Xray & thought she saw a blockage like a piece of phone cord (he had bitten clear thru one twice), & convinced me to operate. Once inside she felt the stomach OK, but the lymph nodes were 10x normal size. She did a lab sample & said it looked like lymphoma. My the time I got to Boulder the lab confirmed it & said prognosis poor, treatment of no avail, 2-3 weeks expected to live. My friend in Ind. is the ferret resource person for the Indianapolis area & takes 4 legged people no one else wants like a cat with cancer, fetter with seizures & place many others in new homes. She said Gerber turkey rice is the one her ferrets eat when nothing else works, so I had Timmy on that & an herbal tonic I found in Colo. on my way to Ind. The herbal tonic in water is the only thing he would consistently drink on his own. It is similar to KM or other products, this being sold by "personal wealth systems or PWS. Dr. Susan also prescribed Pet tinic liquid vitamins 1/22 2x day, and Deliver 2.0 (which replaced isocal HCN) 6cc 3xday. By the time I got to Boulder to see Dr. McCluggage at the All Pets clinic there he said the lymphoma was 85% GONE! Dr. McCluggage does Chinese herbs, homeopathy, and acupuncture on 4 legged people! His name was given to me by Dr. Nye, Susan's' partner. He also added CoQ-10, the same people take, 30mg caps., 1/10 2xday, and immuplex 4960 by Standard Process inc., 1/2 cap 2xday. This product I've found at a local health store also. I've read the posts about the Duck soup and found I can add KMR (kitten milk replacement) without him protesting taste wise. He did not take to Nutramigen or Prestimil, both baby formulas from the grocery store. So here is the recipe that has evolve for my Timmy that may help some of you who have sick little people. He would take some from a dish or spoon but the most seem to get in him by offering via a 20cc syringe with no needle, of course. I think maybe it stimulates a nursing reflex so he will eat some 5 to 20cc at a sitting, 3 or 4 times a day. I have available for his free taking, water with a table spoon of clover honey and the PWS herbal formula that has some 28 herbs and fruit extracts. I will post the ingredients if anyone wants to know. Dr. Susan was familiar with 3/4 of them & said she was moving into that area as the AMA type medicine even for the vets had nothing good to offer for many cancers. In short I am applying some 2000 hours of research I did when my brother had leukemia. He had the AMA belief though, and it poisoned him to death in 1989. Timmy does not have that handicap so he's doing much better. Timmys' "super food": 1- 2oz jar Gerber Turkey rice 1 Tbl. clover honey 2 oz. Deliver 2.0 (the rest of the 8oz can I put in 2 oz. Tupperware & freeze 10cc PWS herbal tonic 1-2 scoops KMR, kitten milk replacement powder contents of 2 caps of Immuplex 4960 about 40% of a 30mg. CoQ-10 cap 1 Tbl Ferretone for taste 1cc pet tinic vitamins Feed 20cc 2-4x day or what ever he will eat. When his chin gets wet we have to pause to wipe it dry, he likes to be neat! Afterwards he rubs & stretches on the carpet & seems to feel much better. He still sleeps more than the others, but he seems alert & in no pain, sleeping peacefully, so I'm glad he's here with me. The rest of the batch my other guys finish eagerly. I hope to perhaps visit Dr. Brown later this year with him mostly or fully recovered. It would be a mile stone in treatment for our little friends & family. One thing that really helped is my friend Mason in Ind. repeatedly telling me to be aggressive in positive treatment with Timmy. Not just grieve, thinking there's nothing we can do to help! It may sound weird, but talking to them & telling them you love them & am glad they're alive really does help give them something to live for. It's just like us 2 legged people, we need something & someone to live for. I've gone thru some bad periods of chronic fatigue & depression & these little guys at times have made a difference for me also. "We're all in this together". Peace, love & ferret kisses, Gary [Posted in FML issue 1125]