wendyzski: (buckethead bunny)
wendyzski ([personal profile] wendyzski) wrote2008-05-08 07:57 pm

slowly calming down but still scared

Pepper has pasteurella.

Think of it like having an FIV-positive cat - she can't have contact with other buns (good thing she doesn't want to) or cats, and her immune system is compromised.

She may coast along with only an occasional flare-up needing medication, she could struggle with chronic infections and abscesses needing treatment or surgery, she could end up just a bit less active and on antibiotics for life, or she could just get sicker and die.

If it is caught early, there is an 80% chance of recovery or simple management. I'm hoping that a month of mild sneezing followed by 3 weeks of the wrong medicine and a week of waiting for the culture still makes it "early" enough.

Since the most common antibiotic used for this doesn't seem to be working, we're trying another one (chloramphenicol). I have to be at work stu[idly early tomorrow, so I will have time to pick up the meds in the afternoon. Not sure that I'll be at gaming after all that.

So now we wait and worry.

[identity profile] caitriona27.livejournal.com 2008-05-09 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Ick. We haven't had to deal with the Baytril resistance on those 2. I do have a case of head tilt though that the ear infection was Baytril resistant.

*hug* I know how it goes trying to find a bunny sitter. Thankfully the one time we needed to do meds we were able to take him with us.

Good Luck.