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Have you ever felt like this?........

basirascal

Mama Doe
As many of you know we lost Basil on Monday. I know it is still early days and I have little Twinkle to focus on, but I just keep thinking back to Basil and going over the events of the weekend:cry: I feel so guilty should I have noticed something was wrong earlier? -could I have done more for him? -maybe I should have been quicker getting him to the vets (around 3 hours) -did I do something wrong when I was his bunny mummy?:cry: I know he was a poorly bun from the very start with his e.cuniculi and his dodgy kidney and then the snuffles and he was always at the vets, but.......:cry: anyone have any thoughts or experience of this?
By the way Twinkle seems to be settling in really well. He is really so tiny and has a vet check this afternoon, just to make sure he's ok, but I am becoming paranoid. I disnfected his water bottle 3 times yesterday:oops: cleaned his den out about 5 times, restricted his nuggets because I don't want to give him too many, I hardly dare introduce herbs, I've given him just a couple of tiny leaves -but Basil used to love them so much. The good thing is eats a massive amount of hay:) In fact an amazing amount for such a little chap he never stops. Poor Basil wasn't a big Hay eater, we tried lots of different types, but he was never keen.
Sorry for the long post, just feeling a bit worried about it all at the moment.
 
I reckon the majority of people feel similar and question things after a death, let alone an unexpected one.

At the end of the day, you did all you could, and you made the best choices you could make at the time; that's all anyone can do.

You're grieving. Be patient with yourself, and be very kind to yourself.
 
I understand how youre feeli g :cry:

When Tilly died I tormented myself with 'what ifs' and blamed myself for months. I was also so over paranoid about Timmy, and then Mimi aswell when wegot her. I used to wakeup every morning with a feeling of dread that I would find one of them really ill, sometimes Id even get up in the night to check on them :oops::(

It was a horrible time but it did ease over the months. I am now totally relaxed again now and can see that it was all just part of the trauma.

Im so sorry youre going through this :cry: (((HUGS)))
 
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