Hi everyone,
Been a while since I have posted.
Yesterday we noticed that Snowy's (aged 9/9 and half) right eye looked very sore and she had barely touched her nuggets overnight. Took her to the vets straight away where she was seen and examined by our normal rabbit savvy vet.
Turns out that she seems to have suffered some kind of trauma to her eye - we have no idea how she has done it or what has caused it but because it was swollen and very painful, hence the reluctance to eat. The vet kept her in yesterday to monitor, give fluids, pain relief and syringe food and we brought her back home yesterday evening and syringe fed her during the night. She has nibbled some hay and kale of her own accord, but we try not to give too much of the latter as we don't want her to get gas.
This morning we gave her the eye drops - she has to have two different kinds as well as 0.75ml of metacam, however she seemed very lethargic and just not herself so we took another trip to the vets and when picking her up t put her in the carry case we noticed a lump on her chest/stomach.
The vet has increased her metacam dosage to 1.25ml twice a day as well as 0.25ml of tramodyl (sp?) twice a day and has advised us to keep syringe feeding her but her gut sounds normal/good. It seems that her eye is so painful that attempting to chew anything like hay or nuggets makes it even worse.
Teeth are ok, there are a few small spurs but nothing that protruding into the tear duct/ eye.
The lump on her chest/stomach they think may be an abscess but the priority at the moment his her eye. The vet that saw her today said the pressure in her eye was good, but they cannot see past the first layer of the eye as there is so much blood. So it may be that if there is no improvement by Monday we have to consider having her eye removed and at the same time they would drain/ cut out the abscess.
Her other eye is fine and we have one bunny with a cataract which he can basically no longer see out of (he's 12-13 years old) so we know she could cope with one eye and we'd rather she wasn't in pain and distress. Guess I'm just worried about her getting through the next 48 hours, the prospect of surgery and we can't figure out how she did it.
To make things worse, we have had a bereavement in the family and the funeral is on Tuesday so it will be very tricky for us to administer care to her.
Been a while since I have posted.
Yesterday we noticed that Snowy's (aged 9/9 and half) right eye looked very sore and she had barely touched her nuggets overnight. Took her to the vets straight away where she was seen and examined by our normal rabbit savvy vet.
Turns out that she seems to have suffered some kind of trauma to her eye - we have no idea how she has done it or what has caused it but because it was swollen and very painful, hence the reluctance to eat. The vet kept her in yesterday to monitor, give fluids, pain relief and syringe food and we brought her back home yesterday evening and syringe fed her during the night. She has nibbled some hay and kale of her own accord, but we try not to give too much of the latter as we don't want her to get gas.
This morning we gave her the eye drops - she has to have two different kinds as well as 0.75ml of metacam, however she seemed very lethargic and just not herself so we took another trip to the vets and when picking her up t put her in the carry case we noticed a lump on her chest/stomach.
The vet has increased her metacam dosage to 1.25ml twice a day as well as 0.25ml of tramodyl (sp?) twice a day and has advised us to keep syringe feeding her but her gut sounds normal/good. It seems that her eye is so painful that attempting to chew anything like hay or nuggets makes it even worse.
Teeth are ok, there are a few small spurs but nothing that protruding into the tear duct/ eye.
The lump on her chest/stomach they think may be an abscess but the priority at the moment his her eye. The vet that saw her today said the pressure in her eye was good, but they cannot see past the first layer of the eye as there is so much blood. So it may be that if there is no improvement by Monday we have to consider having her eye removed and at the same time they would drain/ cut out the abscess.
Her other eye is fine and we have one bunny with a cataract which he can basically no longer see out of (he's 12-13 years old) so we know she could cope with one eye and we'd rather she wasn't in pain and distress. Guess I'm just worried about her getting through the next 48 hours, the prospect of surgery and we can't figure out how she did it.
To make things worse, we have had a bereavement in the family and the funeral is on Tuesday so it will be very tricky for us to administer care to her.
