Bunny Buddy
Wise Old Thumper
Barnaby is in emergency surgery- blockage... RIP Barnaby (third time unlucky).
Blood glucose 23.... big stomach .....
Blood glucose 23.... big stomach .....
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Barnaby is in emergency surgery- blockage....
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Bunny Buddy
Wise Old Thumper
He is. I left him at open surgery and only about 15 minutes later got the phone call to say he was going into surgery. I think Rosie was expecting it to be this serious during the consultation. It's exactly the same time that Binky went into surgery 9.30 on the Thursday before the owners' day... Barnaby is Esme's new companion....
Jack's-Jane
Wise Old Thumper
Oh no
Millions of vibes being sent xx
Millions of vibes being sent xx
Bunny Buddy
Wise Old Thumper
Thanks all. so grateful for the support.
jemjabella
Mama Doe
Keeping everything crossed for Barnaby.
Millions and millions of vibes for Barnaby. Xxx
MummyBunnyEm
Mama Doe
Hope all goes well for Barnaby xx
Bunny Buddy
Wise Old Thumper
Thanks all. He's got through the surgery thanks to the skill of the vet. The next 48 hours or so are still critical.
The blockage was in the duodenum (just outside the stomach) and given the appearance of the gut it had been there for some time. (Gut was reddish/purple). All of this made him a bad anaesthetic risk and he didn't do well at all under the GA initially but when the obstruction had been moved he did well. I had the gamble during the night of taking him to OOH I don't have faith in or playing the waiting game til my rabbit savvy vets could see him. I may have put him at risk by playing the waiting game but you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. That said, I thought it was 'just stasis', I really don't know what I would have done last night if I had known it was a blockage. I'm going to have to have a better plan for future.... but today thank god Heather was doing the surgery.
Edit to add: The blockage was a faecal pellet - I wish I could stop them eating them. Last week they have very fine hay and were producing smaller darker poops, in the last couple of days they've had stalky hay, I bet if he ate one of 'last weeks' poops it would have passed through alright!!
The blockage was in the duodenum (just outside the stomach) and given the appearance of the gut it had been there for some time. (Gut was reddish/purple). All of this made him a bad anaesthetic risk and he didn't do well at all under the GA initially but when the obstruction had been moved he did well. I had the gamble during the night of taking him to OOH I don't have faith in or playing the waiting game til my rabbit savvy vets could see him. I may have put him at risk by playing the waiting game but you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. That said, I thought it was 'just stasis', I really don't know what I would have done last night if I had known it was a blockage. I'm going to have to have a better plan for future.... but today thank god Heather was doing the surgery.
Edit to add: The blockage was a faecal pellet - I wish I could stop them eating them. Last week they have very fine hay and were producing smaller darker poops, in the last couple of days they've had stalky hay, I bet if he ate one of 'last weeks' poops it would have passed through alright!!
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RedFraggle
Warren Veteran
Paws crossed for a good recovery
joey&boo
Wise Old Thumper
What a relief he is over the first hurdle. do they know what the blockage was? Unless you live around the corner from your savvy vet who does its own OOHs its always a difficult call deciding if it is better to wait til opening hours. It seems like you made the right call (we've both had less than competent vets let our bunnies with blockages down in our formative bunny years, haven't we?) Now vibes for a good recovery
Jack's-Jane
Wise Old Thumper
I have never understood how fecal pellets can cause obstructions. You'd think the highly acidic stomach would almost dissolve a re-ingested fecal. But I have heard of quite a few other cases of blockages due to fecal pellets
I really hope that Barnaby will make a good recovery xx
That is scary. Glad Barnaby is out of surgery and tons of vibes he recovers well. Xxx
