well, Nero came home from dr. Schiff's. he had the biggest tumor of the pancreas (removed tonight) that Dr. Schiff had ever seen. He also removed the left adrenal. the right was fine. the doc did say that the entire pancreas is cancerous. The news to note is that Nero showed only twice "crashing", where his blood sugar would go down. The vet and us attributed this to the chromium/brewer's yeast that we had been giving him for the past year. Anyway, the doc is not hopeful about Nero. If making Nero's records available via mail or ftp or web will help anyone, please let me know and I will do that. We are on the road of long nights of pedialyte and forced feedings. beckers [Posted in FML issue 2249]