I feel a need to respond to Anon's statement and I quote, "I can't believe they ignore a very common problem that presents all of these symptoms and pursue these more arcane possibilities that are proving to be dead ends." I feel the ruling out of the estrogen source coming from ovarian/uterine tissue was a road that had to be taken. Yes it seems that it has pointed the way to another road (adrenal surgery), but I do not consider it a dead end. In both surgeries ovarian/uterine tissue was found and the adrenals appeared normal. My surgeon did not feel comfortable in removing an adrenal when there were no sign of lesions. Thanks to Dr. Williams and several people who responded to my post, I now know that the adrenals can appear normal and still be diseased. Weezul is scheduled for surgery on 5-30 and the surgeon will examine the adrenals again and if there is no change he will remove the left adrenal. The FML is a wonderful source of information and outlet for our joys, tears and fears. Because of the FML many ferrets are alive and happy today that would not be otherwise. Thanks BIG for doing such a great job in providing this service to us. I have reprinted several copies of Pamela Greene's package on ferret disease's and given them to my vets and they were very grateful for the information. It is not that many of the vets do not want to help, it is just there is so little good information about ferrets. When I questioned my surgeon on how many ferrets he has operated on, he said very few because most people do not want to pay alot of money to save the animal....very sad. Please send healing thoughts to Weezul on Tuesday. Judith Gallipeau, Weezul, Teebone, Delilah [Posted in FML issue 1206]