Our first ferret, Tasha, is almost 4 years (the end of this month) and has been a little puny lately so when we took our bunch in for shots I had the vet give her an exam, blood work up etc as she had lost a little hair on her back and I suspected maybe adrenal. I got a call from the vets office today with the results and it was not a happy making. :( Our vet says it appears that she is having a kidney disease problem (part of the results will follow) that she says may be due to adrenal disease but that it appears to be not a slight problem and she may not be a good candidate for surgery. If it is the adrenal and they take it out, if the damage to the kidney isn't too bad it may reverse however if the damage is extensive (she said the test results looked bad) then it probably wouldn't do much to help her and she might not survive the surgery. :( I want her to have the surgery but not if she will die during or right after surgery. With out the surgery she will have renal shut down and die so I'm in the middle and need a nudge one way or the other. I haven't told my DH yet, he's out of town on business and will be devastated, so I'll wait until he gets back in on Friday and we can cry together. I don't think he will know what to do either, we are too close to the situation, we naturally would like to have her around for as long as possible, but I don't want her to suffer either because I don't want to say good bye. Test Results : BUN 44 Creatinine 1.3 PCV 28 Platelet count was low White count 1000 (low) Red count low Lymphocytes (spelling!) 91% Nutra fills 8% Liver Enzymes normal Anyone offer suggestions? Thank you in advance. Vicky [log in to unmask] Families are Forever [Posted in FML issue 2327]