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So actually she's had the lung wash! I think we miss understood each other slightly, I thought I'd get a call but the vet thought I'd given permission this morning if he felt she was well enough to go ahead and it was of benefit. Which is fine I'm happy it's been done and she's been in recovery for an hour, is doing well and has been syringe fed. Skull X rays were normal, heart scan all.normal which is good news. The vet also looked up her nose with a camera and took a deep nasal swab as he was surprised to see white discharge there so that and the lung wash are being sent for histology. She'll be coming home with frusemide, metacam and baytril since she was better on it and vet doesn't think it's worth changing until we have the results. Fingers crossed she can get through this
I don't necessarily want to complain, I appreciate rabbits are tricky and I don't want to upset the vet but I do feel disappointed her breathing was never acknowledged and the lump was missed??
Thank you everyone who has wished Bigwig well
She's back home, I've had her in her crate for a couple of hours incase she wanted to go off and sit somewhere away from her food/water and so far she's eating hay and veg.
The vet said he was surprised about the nasal discharge as there's none externally and I haven't noticed any at all, could be caused by an infection so we'll see what the swan results are
Things did sound more positive on discharge.
My partner wants to contact our original vets about the missed lump on the X ray, the vet showed me the X ray they did and it's clearly a bright white circle which he said obviously should not be there and her breathing is poor whereas every time we took her to her regular vets they said breathing fine. We also kept having to ask for medication and take her back several times to get any, was just getting one off injections for 3 days then following the X ray was told it's not needed.
She's doing well. I'm to ring in 7 days if I don't hear sooner about the results. 
Thank you all
I called our regular vets to let them know but sadly the receptionist got quite defensive, saying they're like a GP and it's why they refer. But not quite true, we had to ask for the referral several times and had 3 visits with no medication to go home with and therefore had to keep calling to ask for it, to be told it wasn't needed. Every time I mentioned her breathing was told it's normal etc but oh well.
Thank you all
I called our regular vets to let them know but sadly the receptionist got quite defensive, saying they're like a GP and it's why they refer. But not quite true, we had to ask for the referral several times and had 3 visits with no medication to go home with and therefore had to keep calling to ask for it, to be told it wasn't needed. Every time I mentioned her breathing was told it's normal etc but oh well.
