It’s been 4 weeks since Aeryn broke her leg again, this time in 2 places at the right femur (see attached X-ray).  Up until very recently, she and her cagemate Tegan have been confined to their part of the bunny condo to limit her movements so she can heal.  Aeryn has been acting in a completely normal fashion, and even started hopping back into their litterbox about a week ago. 

Given that, we have decided to let them come out of their cage as before.  She is hopping and getting about normally.  Her leg may not have healed completely as much as it ever will, but it is clearly holding up, and it’s impossible to immobilize her completely at any rate.  And if you look closely at her when she is sitting, you can tell that her right leg’s angle is just a tiny bit off from the left one.  Given how the leg broke, a fully restored heal was impossible.  And of course they don’t race around anywhere as much as they used given that Aeryn just turned 10 and Tegan is 9.  But if we didn’t have the X-ray, we would be convinced that she was faking the whole thing! 

Aeryn is still on the metacam for pain relief twice a day indefinitely, and she loves the taste of it and will lick the syringe dry and chin it much to the annoyance of Tegan who can’t have any.

We don’t know how long Aeryn has, but it is clearly not her time.  Not now, and quite possibly not for some time to come.