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