Our bun, Daisy has been going through so much over the last month. I’ve made a handful of posts about her surgery and recovery so far, but haven’t posted for a couple of weeks.

She had been doing amazingly well, but with the COVID restrictions at our vet, the appointments have felt very disconnected. Also, we haven’t been able to choose who we see, it’s just been a case of whomever has been available.

The daily cleaning and antibiotics has been stressful, but she has been taking it like a champ until recently. The cleaning is clearly painful, she’s still producing pus and a vet we had never seen before decided to take her off the antibiotics on Tuesday. Since then, a massive swelling has developed under her eye, but her actual wound is now too closed up to be able to get any pus out of it. I went back to the vets for an emergency appointment yesterday and she has been put on another type of antibiotic.

While cleaning her face this morning, we’ve managed to have a better look at her face, the remaining hole and just how swollen, red and tender this swelling over her cheek bone/below her eye actually is. It’s drastically bigger than yesterday, which was bigger than the day before.

We all know that bunny pus is just too thick to drain on its own. And we said at the very, very start that we would try a surgical options once, but we will not put her through it multiple times.

She’s an old, amazing, loving bun, but after everything we’ve been putting her through the last 4-5 weeks, she’s now afraid of us. Hides in the furthest corner where she knows we can’t reach and is just a shadow of who she was.

I think it’s time. We think it’s time. While she still has some quality of life and enjoys a wee bit of banana and a tentative cuddle…

We’ve found a semi local vet who is able to do at-home euthanasia and are thinking of booking them for tomorrow. I don’t want her taken to the scary vets for her last moments. I want her at home where she feels at least somewhat safe…