Hello to all in FML land! I just wanted to let you know how Sammy is doing and to thank a couple of people. Just to recap, Sammy lost his hair on is tail. It grew back but he started losing hair on his stomach and then a general hair thinning. He has also lost too much weight. He is a MF Silver Mit. He is a rescue from Houston,TX and I do not know his exact age. He is approxately 3 to 4 years old. I would like to thank Dr. Bruce Williams for his help and referral to the Midwest Bird & Exotic Animal Hospital in Westchester, IL. I saw Dr. Robert Ness there, who is wonderful! He determined that Sammy has Adrenal Disease and also, through blood tests, determined he has Insulinoma (blood-sugar count of 66). Sammy also has a mass cell tumor on his left rear leg. I am a truck driver and drive the 48 states so I have the opportunity of going almost everywhere. I am from Idaho and will be there for the holidays, so I have arranged to have the surgery in Idaho Falls, ID on December 29, 1997. During the surgery the vet will remove any diseased nodes from his pancreas that can be found, remove the diseased adrenal, and remove the tumor from his leg. I would be very interested in any advice that you would like to give me and what I can do post-op for Sammy (food, keep him in a quiet place or out where he can see what s going on, etc.) I would like to wish all of you out there a wonderful Holiday Season! Jason Poole Sammy & Doris (The Lights of my Life!) [Posted in FML issue 2161]