Hi everyone,
Sorry, I tried to update earlier but was so tired I couldn’t finish and there didn’t seem to be a draft button.
We took Cinnamon to another vet on the 2nd and had xrays and blood tests done. The vet said that her stomach felt funny and the xrays showed that she had fluid in her uterus and it was like two long balloons on either side of her. This caused her her internal organs to become squished in the middle. Poor Cinnamon must of been in so much pain. We really wished we had taken her here instead of our usual vet but they weren’t open until the 2nd anyway.
The Xray also showed that Cinnamons kidneys had moved a fair amount from where they were supposed to be, and that she had a bigger layer of fat than she should have. The blood tests also revealed this fat as the tests should have come up clear but hers were milky. Because of this they can’t see how her liver is functioning. They had to try and take blood out of both her legs as they couldnt really see the vein. I don’t know if this was because of her fat or not.
Apparently we have been feeding Cinnamon all wrong. Pellets especially australian ones were full of sugars and so are carrots. And she loved sultanas. Cinnamon had a sweet tooth and I guess we couldn’t say no to what she liked. Obviously this is going to change. But for now the vet said to give her what she wants, as when we removed everything except hay and water when she had diahrea Cinnamon instead of bouncing back as she used to, went into starvation mode. I guess this had to do with the pain from the fluid in her uterus.
She is going into surgery to remove her uterus on Wednesday. Letting her eat all that she wants is to get her gut going so she doesn’t go into Stasis on top of everything else. Diarrhoea at this point is better than nothing at all. Anyway they gave her the sub q and showed us how to give her critical care as we had heaps of trouble as she hated it. We had to give it every 2-4 hours as she wasn’t eating or drinking by herself and once she started to eat and drink herself switch it to 4-6 hours. By diarrhoea i mean the smeared soft deformed cecals as the vet told us rabbits don’t really get diarrhoea it just looks like it.
We were given a medication to get her gut moving again. She seems to like it, but then again it has a peppermint taste. We tried mixing the critical care with baby food but she still didn’t like it.
The next day we took her back for another subq and they said she was looking so much better. She was reverting back to the old Cinnamon and in the vets words were giving them ‘attitude’
Its been a few days now and she is eating by herself although we are still giving her critical care. Her poos are back, tiny black ones and soft squishy ones and its a very welcome sight. She is also peeing more and drinking water. She is still in pain and we can her the grinding of her teeth sometimes, and she still prefers to lie down instead of investigating and playing.
We will be calling the vet tomorrow as we have a few concerns. One is that we stopped giving her the gut medicine…rantidine? as we were told to stop if her tummy goes hard and to call them. It went hard last night, and they were closed today so we couldn’t call. Her tummy has gone back to being soft again but as a precaution we decided to not give it today.
Our other concern was the surgery was happening too quickly. Like should we wait until Cinnamon is a lot better? Build up her strength? Or waiting too long would make it worse? We hate that our little girl is in pain but we want her to have the best chance of surgery. Speaking of which, we want to know her chances. Its been an emotional couple of weeks and I know I will be in tears as i hand her over.
Does anyone know what this fluid in uterus thing is? I usually only read about cancer in the uterus. How does the fluid get there? Did we do something wrong? Was it her diet? We tried looking it up but couldn’t find anything. Possibly because we don’t know what its called. Has anyone had the same problem and offer advice? She was so happy on Christmas. We got her a tunnel to play in and she was up all night playing (the tunnel had a bell so we could hear her). Everything happened so fast
Thanks for caring and reading guys