What a long day. Percy went in for exploratory today. His hairlessness and straining to urinate a bit, made him an adrenalectomy candidate. His doc took a biopsy of the right adrenal. The left was really tiny, he said, and the right a bit larger. If the situation were reversed he probably would have taken out the left one. Percy hadn't had the Tennessee adrenal panel to confirm an adrenal problem. I guess more evident adrenal problems were expected. He also had an enlarged mesentary gland, which sits right behind the stomach and was about 1 1/2 inches. It could be related to the ECE bout (we think ECE) in August, during which Percy was the sickest of six ferrets. A skin biopsy was also taken. A skin scraping showed no problems this morning, but the biopsy will be more thorough a check. Please comment, or e-mail me privately, if you have any suggestions. Ooops. The patient is up. I'm off to check him! Thank you, Lynn Mc. [Posted in FML issue 1752]