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Pepper is eating!
Jul. 26th, 2011 08:58 amstoopy LJ not letting me post this last night:
I talked to the vet before she left for the evening, and she said that Pepper
still wasn't eating but had started to try and right herself. She was still
very guarded about her prognosis, but I was already on my way there to see if I
would be allowed to visit her.
>
> I got there about 15 minutes later, and they said that I would have to wait a
bit to see her, because she had just started trying to eat on her own! We let
her go on undisturbed while I dealt with paperwork, and then they brought her to
me.
>
> She's horribly tilted, and her upper eye looks awfully clouded. She was lying
limp, with a stalk of parsley sticking half out of her mouth like she was just
too tired to finish chewing.
>
> But when I started to rub her face like she likes it, she started to fuss a
bit. She actually snuggled up against my arm - probably as a support against
rolling but I'll take what I can get. I talked to her, and rubbed her ears, and
ended up sort of holding her between my forearms so that her body at least was
upright and supported, while her face lay on my hand. After a few minutes, she
started trying to eat again. I coaxed her into eating the rest of that parsley
and a bit more than one lettuce leaf. Not a lot, but it's progress - and it
shows that my little bunny-bitch is still fighting!
>
> She's off oxygen (it didn't seem to be doing much) and is on metacam,
antibiotics (i forget which), something-azole for possible e. cunniculi, and
reglan.
>
> So if she can keep this up (and I can find a way to pay for it) she looks to
be hanging on.
Overnight crew reports that she "attacked the syringe" at feeding time, and clearly wanted more. She's drinking water, turned around in her cage, and even tried to hop! Still no poop though, which is very worrisome.
I talked to the vet before she left for the evening, and she said that Pepper
still wasn't eating but had started to try and right herself. She was still
very guarded about her prognosis, but I was already on my way there to see if I
would be allowed to visit her.
>
> I got there about 15 minutes later, and they said that I would have to wait a
bit to see her, because she had just started trying to eat on her own! We let
her go on undisturbed while I dealt with paperwork, and then they brought her to
me.
>
> She's horribly tilted, and her upper eye looks awfully clouded. She was lying
limp, with a stalk of parsley sticking half out of her mouth like she was just
too tired to finish chewing.
>
> But when I started to rub her face like she likes it, she started to fuss a
bit. She actually snuggled up against my arm - probably as a support against
rolling but I'll take what I can get. I talked to her, and rubbed her ears, and
ended up sort of holding her between my forearms so that her body at least was
upright and supported, while her face lay on my hand. After a few minutes, she
started trying to eat again. I coaxed her into eating the rest of that parsley
and a bit more than one lettuce leaf. Not a lot, but it's progress - and it
shows that my little bunny-bitch is still fighting!
>
> She's off oxygen (it didn't seem to be doing much) and is on metacam,
antibiotics (i forget which), something-azole for possible e. cunniculi, and
reglan.
>
> So if she can keep this up (and I can find a way to pay for it) she looks to
be hanging on.
Overnight crew reports that she "attacked the syringe" at feeding time, and clearly wanted more. She's drinking water, turned around in her cage, and even tried to hop! Still no poop though, which is very worrisome.
