I'm Baaaaaack!

Hello all! Pippin had his surgery recheck today, and his vet gave him the okay, so I am back! It is lovely to have my furbaby healthy again. All the stress has been lifted off my shoulders! So I am sorry for not posting in a while but I am going to make it up to you all by doing a recap of the last two months. Only the good stuff. You will see that it involved a lot of pizza...

Red onion, kale and daiya. You wish you had some.

Close-up!

On one glorious day in September, DanT, our friend Austin and I went on an excursion to the New York Botanical Gardens in the Bronx. It is like leaving the city for a few hours, while remaining within subway distance of everything. DanT and I are members of the Gardens and head up there 3-4 times a year. This trip was for the opening of a former snuff mill that is on the grounds of the Garden. The Garden has ever so politically renamed the mill "the Stone Mill". We went to see said mill and enjoy the lovely weather and beautiful plants.

I think it's that way!

The backside of the Stone Mill

Me, looking at the river. The Bronx River, that is.

Look how low the river is. We had almost no rain all summer.

Me and Austin rehydrating on the tram ride.

Tram!

A trip to the Gardens is never complete without a stop in the amazing gift shop. A hat-slash-lighting fixture.

After all that nature we treated ourselves to Red Bamboo in the village.

A few weeks later the lovely Lindsay of Kiss Me I'm Vegan came for a visit from her new home in LA. What do we do when we get together? We make pizza, of course! (I told you there would be a lot of pizza)

Lindsay DJing on my computer while I wash something in the sink! Oh yeah, that's my kitchen!

Pizza baking in my amazing toaster/oven. The best investment ever.

And now for an artsy shot:

DanT took this one. This was a few days before surgery.

Thanks guys for all your kind words during Pippin's surgery and rehabilitation. It meant a lot to me!

Pippin is home!

Hi all. Sorry for disappearing over the last week. This past week has been the biggest roller coaster of my life. Pippin is home, though not totally out of the woods yet. Hopefully next Wednesday at his checkup we will get the okay from the vet. Then I just have to give him an antibiotic shot every other day for three months... I'm so looking forward to that... (No, I am not. Not at all)

So I still need your healing vibes! The worst thing that could happen is this wound could re-abscess and they would need to go back in and clean it out again. I really, really, really don't want that to happen to my poor baby. He just spent a full week at the vet (and had two surgeries). That's enough for one three pound bunny, right?

Okay, that's all for now. Just a quick update. Now that I'm done constantly worrying, hopefully my brain will be able to think about something else and come up with something good to blog about. Thanks for your support, guys!

Pippin, my beloved adopted bunny, is sick.

Hi everyone. I am here with some less than stellar news. That adorable bunny you see above this writing (under the stuffed elephant) is sick. Pippin has an abscess. It is really a localized bacterial infection (it feels like a giant lump in his neck-chin area), which doesn't sound too bad, but you cannot just give a rabbit antibiotics. Rabbits have beneficial bacteria that they cannot live without in their digestive system and any non-localized antibiotics will essentially kill him.

Sleepy bunny

So the only real option is antibiotic beads surgically implanted into the abscess. So my little bun-bun is having surgery this week. I am one scared momma. This is the first time Pippin has ever been sick.

Sphinx bunny

He just passed his 5th birthday on September 15th and I swear that if he comes through this okay, when he gets better there will be a very special birthday treat waiting for my little baby.

Tomorrow is the appointment with the surgery vet. He likely won't have surgery tomorrow unless the vet determines that it is an emergency. Poor little Bun! Please send your good wishes! If I disappear for a few days, you now know why.

Me and my baby