well to all of you my dearest friends and to all that haven't heard the news. Well this week has been like the trip of the Minnow, a three hours tour that just wont quit. On tuesday afternoon at 2:45 i was going in to the ferret room. as i stepped over the wall i was mugged by 6 carpet sharks as usual un fortunately some one got under foot pretty well and tripped me up as i stepped down with my right foot of balance i found a little one a sleep in her sleep sack that caught most of my weight.. not hearing anything break i saw something start to move out of the sleep sack but couldn't get all the way out. as i pulled Raven out of the sack she was limp but still breathing but very very labored and slow. in the next 5 mins i managed to find a vet 22 miles a way. he had never seen a ferret be for but but was recommended by a ferret vet that is 35 mins away. with my concerns of internal hemorrhaging and lug damage i just wanted any one to open her up and fix any thing i had ripped... i.e.. spline or intestines. well i managed to get some one to hold her and made the 22 miles in 12 mins.. at a 120 mph joe was trying to put on his seat belt. i told him it wouldn't help at this speed... he believed me and just puckered up. well first their was no internal bleeding. and didn't look like any broken bones just the shock. well by the time we left the vet she was a little more alert and by 10 that night was up and moving around but went to sleep in the middle of the floor and stayed their all night. by am her breathing had not improved so she when to the ferret vet that morning. they took new x-rays and she had pneumonia and a broken pelvis. she was purple (not black and blue but bright purple) from her hind legs to her sternum and almost from one side of the spine to the other. the worst thing i had ever seen an a little one. she spent the night in a incubator on 100% oxygen. she came home Thursday and seams do be doing much better tonight. she goes back monday for more x-rays she is vet badly bruised and is resting most all the time but today her breathing has improved. she still isn't eating much but she is eating all the nutracal she wants. i let her out for a hour to night and she acted like a normal ferret... just in slow motion. to every one around the country that has called and send e-mail thank you so very much. i have been beating my self up thought this week and i coulndt have done it with out some of you.... i will keep every one posted on how she is doing..... thanks again Mark [Posted in FML issue 2402]