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March 2, 2007

Dear Friends of Jungle Friends,

Cody is one of the most loving monkeys here at Jungle Friends and he is very sick. Lee took Cody to the vet school today and he appears to have peritonitis. Cody's white blood cells are very high and point to an infection in the early stages (about 24 hours); right now the infection is contained in the abdomen, but it could spread, so Dr. Heard will be doing emergency surgery in the morning to clean out the infection and if there is a tear in his abdomen he will suture it. Dr. Heard will also be looking for a tumor; we hope there will not be one, but there is a chance that there is a cancerous tumor.

Cody has diabetes and has been doing very well beating the disease; we hope he can beat this one too! Please say your prayers for Cody and send him your love and healing thoughts.

Lots of monkey love,
Kari and the monks