The best bet at this point is that Meltdown had a brief bout of a bladder infection; if it springs up again she'll be on biactin (if I recall the name properly). What we will see if her kidneys start to go will be pretty constant urinating and drinking as the kidneys push out fluid without removing wastes from the blood. That's very different from what we saw. Hanan is completely startled by how great her heart sounds and there are no longer any funny lung sounds so if that was a mild infection or a bit of ascites in the lungs we don't know. She may have a new ultrasound as long as she continues doing well enough that there does not appear to be a danger doing so; a ferret-buff cardiologist is extremely curious and would cover it since it would be not for her treatment for to add to the data base. BTW, Hanan thinks he could do either of two new operations if they would be appropriate (the excision, or the muscle wrap) but he thinks that the pain of breathing with cut ribs might be just too much strain. She flirted mightily with him (and he with her -- he so loves ferrets but has no room for any till he and Lisa find an affordable close-enough house), and had hugs. She also showed off that you can't even tell now which leg had the femoral artery clot. This is one TOUGH critter! Sukie P.S. It was not a change in her ascites that we were seeing; we have gotten REALLY good at monitoring ascites. [Posted in FML issue 1833]