Thanks for sharing Wicks. I’d been reading about other parasites (like that terrible one in BC). Her symptoms are a bit different than in the videos – she’s more so dragging her legs or jerking around than stumbling or wobbling. To be honest it looks more painful. It makes me want to cry.

It’s scary how suddenly she developed an extreme fever with no prior symptoms of illness. She’d had basic blood work done before her spay and was deemed healthy by the shelter to adopt her out three weeks before. She was bright eyed that morning.

Our elder rabbit is unaffected (so far). She’s such a tough bunny. 10 years and no emergency vet visits.

I’m unsure of what medications she’s on but I’ll be sure to ask tomorrow when the vet tech shows me how to do it. One is for e cuniculi and the other for nausea.
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I thought that too. I had another bunny develop a slight tilt around the time his partner aggressively cleaned his ears.

Her ears were very hot, which is why we rushed her in. After blood work the vet is confident the infection/bacteria is affecting her brain only. It’s a good and bad thing. Good because her other organs are fine. Bad because drugs aren’t very affective at penetrating the brain. Time will tell if the drugs worked and whether the fever left permanent damage.

I feel so bad for this bunny. Also grateful to the vet because I was sure on day 1 that she wouldn’t make it. I hope her quality of life after this will be decent.

She came home yesterday with five medications, plus critical care. She has one for e cuniculi, an antibiotic, a nausea medication, something to prevent stomach ulcers (probably from all the meds) and metacam.

Thanks Nutmeg!

She’s doing better, which is a miracle. She’s back home and is eating on her own, fighting me on her meds (which I guess is a good thing?). She sits weirdly on her hind legs and doesn’t put too much weight on them but she is moving around fairly easily (still no jumping). What concerns me the most is her personality. She used to excitedly greet us any time we came in the room, just an insanely friendly bunny. Now she barely registers us. It’s so bad that at first I thought she’d lost her hearing. It could be the meds and she might still be in pain, but I hope the fever didn’t affect the part of her brain that made her so sweet. We’ll love her no matter what.

I’m obsessively feeling her ears. Our window is open and room is cool, not quite cold, and her ears are hotter then room temperature. Thankfully she sees the vet tomorrow for a checkup.

Mystery solved! The fever overshadowed the real problem: Saoirse has an abscess. A huge one that has grown from her neck to her chest that burst on the weekend.

I’m freaked out that she could have something so large on her body go unnoticed.

She just had surgery today to drain, scrap and clean it. I’m praying they caught the veins and infected tissue. I’ve read that abscesses can come back with a vengeance. For her healthy and my wallet I hope that’s not the case.