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From: Cal Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 8:11 PM
Subject: Imminent Surgery :(
>
> Prayers please, for Honeymouse aged 2 & 3/4. He's booked in to have a
scent
> gland tumour removed on early Tuesday morning. He won't leave the thing
> alone. Baytril and cortisone haven't induced him to leave the wound he's
made
> to heal, so it's last resort time. My vet has operated successfully to
remove
> a tumour from a gerbil his age before, so she won't put him to sleep
without
> trying all the options, since he is otherwise large and somewhat robust:)
> (She used the word fat, actually, but in the most favourable sense!) I
hope
> so. Reardon and his brother Recznik were my first gerbs, and though I have
> lost a gerb before, I'm dreading the loss of these guys. So, fingers
crossed,
> please, if you've a finger or two to spare.
>
> Another sleepless night beckons, in the service of two very Nice-Male-Mice
> Cal.
>
