After several days of intravenous fluid therapy the next blood sample test had much better values, last time her creatinine was insanely high and now it’s gone down to 2.5 times above normal value which is still bad.

She’s still not eating, had to be syringe fed and managed to poop a bit. I think it’s likely to be urolithiasis which I can see the only solutions are aggressive intravenous fluid therapy or surgically removing calculi from the kidney and that carries a high risk of complications.

Waiting for the ultrasound scan. I was told it’s unlikely to help without a renal biopsy and I’m not sure if I want to carry on paying for the intravenous fluid therapy and hope it works, or opt for surgery to try removing calculi or the bad kidney altogether. Does a bad kidney even need to be removed in case it infects the other?

After a couple more days of the fluid therapy my rabbit is still needing syringe fed Oxbow critical care. The ultrasound results were not good, calculi completely destroyed one kidney and the nurse said based on the blood results and my rabbit still not eating, removing one kidney via surgery is likely going to kill my rabbit.

I can pay to have that remaining kidney tested to see if it’s working decently, but if it is my rabbit wouldn’t refuse to eat. I’ve brought her home, she’s ate a small amount of fresh hay and keeps trying to eat cardboard. She’s refused pellets, willing to eat a small amount of romaine lettuce and just really wants to eat the cardboard. I think she’s terrified of the pellets after getting ill and wants the cardboard for the fibre? The hay I use is fresh ing from hay for pets, not the hay you get from supermarkets.

I frankly cannot afford for the surgery, and even if I can I doubt it’s going to work, my rabbit will either die on the operating table or die from the remaining kidney if it’s not good enough. I’m about £1k in credit card debt, the surgery will cost about £1.5k and more if I opt for a specialist in a vet hospital.

Should I just see if force feeding my rabbit critical care every day, letting her eat a small amount of romaine lettuce and hay, and using the fluid therapy several days each month a good plan to keep her alive for her remaining couple of years? I can afford the fluid therapy perhaps 1-2 times a month unless I relocate to a cheaper place, but I currently live in a place that’s large and picked it because of how much room there is for my rabbit to free range. Without my rabbit I would’ve rented somewhere £400-500 a month cheaper.

I don’t want to give up on my rabbit just because of money, but I obviously don’t want to bankrupt myself or borrow so much money I have to give up on saving up for further education. Won’t go asking my employer for an advance, that’s one way ticket to getting sacked or cutting myself of any future promotion chances.

Just gave her some romaine lettuce, she only went for the one without Oxbow critical care sprinkled in it. I folded both romaine lettuce leafs and although she can’t see the critical care, she can smell it and avoided bite the leaf I snuck the critical care in.

The x-ray showed one kidney twice the size of normal, the ultrasound showed what looked like a pile of mess and no kidney anymore. I was shown the other kidney where you can see the shape and the hole in the middle for the urine to excrete, but the other one… the structure of the kidney is gone, all you can see is a mass flooded with calculi. Her tummy is normally white but it’s now quite red, I think that’s the enlarged kidney causing that but the vet said that’s just over grooming, a side effect from the ultrasound scan.

My rabbit hasn’t been moving much, perhaps in pain all the time. The pain medication from Friday must have worn out. She’s had pain medication a couple of times already, but obviously can’t keep being on it.

Last night I soaked one Fibre First in water and she managed to eat one third of it then refused more. She’s eating about 1-2 remaine lettuce leafs per day, a dozen strands of hay twice a day more or less as I didn’t count. She’s not drinking from her water bowl anymore, I give her water in the critical care and also wash the romaine lettuce first. I hope that’s enough water…? I now have to place all the food near her litter tray and bedding, she’s refusing to hop to the middle of the room or other side where I normally leave food to temp her to move around more often. She’s also wetting her bedding which is near her litter tray, doesn’t want to hop in and out of the litter tray any more. Hurts seeing my extremely intelligent rabbit lose all sense of litter training.

My rabbit hates it when I force feed her, but doesn’t scream or try to bite because she recognises me and knows I’m only making her eat.

  Just waiting for hear back from the rabbit specialist regarding chances of success for surgery. The nurse already told me the prognosis is bad and doubts the specialist can do any further for my rabbit, and even if that bad kidney is removed there’s no guarantee my rabbit remaining kidney will be enough to keep her alive.

Can’t believe I’m actually now considering putting my rabbit down against force feeding her until she gives in.

My rabbit has passed away this evening.

I had been force feeding her critical care once a day or every other day, she was willing to eat hay and romaine lettuce. Since she was putting up a fight with the critical care I gave more romaine lettuce to her, slowly increasing the amount so I can up her water intake. She didn’t drink even one bowl of water in the past couple of weeks, she normally drinks one bowl of water per day.

I think she had gas today. She was writhing about in pain, I tried massaging her stomach and brought her to my bed to monitor her. She managed to poop a huge wet smudgy poop two hours ago so I thought all is going to be fine, was going to see if she’s able to eat and poop later on tonight before dragging her back to the only vet open on a Sunday.

I popped out for 10 minutes to get some air and when I came back she was no longer on my bed, she was on the floor slayed out like she had a seizure. Part of me feels she didn’t want me to see her die so she hanged on until I left, or perhaps she tried to hop down my bed to get to the litter tray and slipped or something.

Don’t know what to do with her corpse now… I put her body back on my bed for now.

I spent half of last night staring at her remains, then slept on one side of the bed with her body slumped on the other side. She was taken away tonight for cremation, going to cost me £150 for a scatter ash tube. Ouch. I’ll probably keep her ashes with me and eventually bury her ashes in some park or lob into the ocean lol. Already miss the little bugger pestering me for head rubs and treats. At least I still have photos of her and videos of her when alive, and also a t-shirt and hoodie with her face on it.