Midge was estimated to be 3 years old when she arrived in July of 2004. She was one of the tiniest adult ferrets I'd ever seen. She weighed less than a pound and was skin and bones. She was found as a stray and the people that found her wanted to keep her, but they were unable to get her to eat anything but cereal. They knew that wasn't the right thing to do and after 2 months of trying they were so worried about how thin she was that they decided to turn Midge over to CFN. Midge soon started eating a special diet and quickly gained 100grams. She had a set back though, she vomited up a large amount of what appeared to be the foam used in carpet padding. She stopped eating her kibble and I had to hand feed her soup. I was concerned she might have more foreign bodies in her stomach that would need to be surgically removed to allow her to feel good again. In addition, it was obvious from her classic pattern of hair loss that she was going to need adrenal surgery at some point, but I had been putting it off so she could regain her strength. A trip to the vet for evaluation was warranted. The vet said she was still way too underweight to have surgery at that time and he couldn't feel the presence of any other foreign bodies in her stomach. It was decided to continue supplementing her food intake and she was put on some medication. She responded well and continued to put on weight, but she still wasn't active or playful at all. In about a month Midge was up to 670 grams and ready for surgery. Her presurgical blood test showed low glucose, so they looked for tumors in her pancreas when they did the surgery, but didn't find any. They removed a portion of her pancreas in the hope that it would help with the insulinoma. They also removed her right adrenal gland, but it was attached to the liver so a portion of the liver had to be removed too. She had a very long and expensive surgery. We were very worried when the next day her temperature still wasn't stabilized at a normal level, but I took her home and she was eating soup again and recovered well thereafter, She went to a foster home where she could play with other ferrets which she enjoyed, but within a month of her surgery she had a hypoglycemic episode that meant the surgery hadn't done much to help her with her low blood sugar problem. She had to be placed on medication to help regulate her glucose and will have to be on the medication for the rest of her life.