In a recent conversation with E. A. Michael and D. Hyman the following natural question was raised: Are the M-spaces of Hyman (see Definition 3.1) metrizable whenever they are first countable? We will answer this question affirmatively. Indeed, we will prove the somewhat stronger result that the M-spaces of Hyman are metrizable whenever they are of pointwise countable type (see Definition 1.1 and ensuing paragraph). It turns out that to answer the preceding question the major difficulty involves the metrizability of adjunction spaces. All our spaces are assumed to be T1.