There is a moderate chance that my bun Bobby will pass away today at the surgery table. Bobby has turned 12 year old on Jan. 15, 2018, his birthday is 1 day before mine.
The sequence of event is totally unexpected. Around 4:30 am, I notice the Manuka honey coated cover on his wound has fall off. This wound is not really a wound. It's just the skin that never grow back.
So about every 3 weeks, the Manuka honey coating will fall off, and I simply re-apply a new coating and let it dry. The wound is only 1/2 of the size of my thumb nail, today is nothing new, I've been doing this for a few months, many times. It's very simple.
As I apply the honey, I vaguely recalled that the wound has a bit more blood than usual, so I put the a non-stick pad on it.
About 1/2 hr. to 45 min. later, the wound opens up to a bigger size, so I put a considerable amount of Manuka honey on, put another new non-stick pad, hold him for 1/2 hr. and use an ice-cube afterwards as well.
So prior to go the vet, most of the bleeding has stopped. But when I arrived at the vet and sit and wait, he seems to have trouble using his right leg to sit up. So I assume there is some more blood loss and I ask the nurse for a cotton swab because the vet is running late. In short, from that 45 min. to 1 hr. time frame of waiting for the vet as the 1st appointment of the day, that wound has opened up considerably further.
When I saw that, I yelled at the front desk receptionist and they took him to the back room.
In about 4.5 hr., I would know the outcome. The problem is, because of the size of the wound, the vet said he can try to shave his fur on all size and stitch the wound together, but even if it's successful, the stitches can re-open tomorrow.
I don't know much about how far can rabbit skin stretch, so I don't know is that size of a wound too big for the skin on all wound to be stretched and close it together. Being a realistic person, I don't think I am optimistic at all based on the size of the wound.
The only small piece of hope is that from experience, all doctors (human and animal) always said the worst case scenario for liability reason, so I don't know if he's moderately optimistic or he's cautious, or he has no hope at all and still want to do the surgery.
He did say that he's observing his condition, make sure he's calm and stable before the surgery can take place.