I’m here writing this on 1 hour of sleep. Stormy had one of the worst statis scares he’s ever had last night.
He was fine all evening and then about 10;30 pm was lying down, shaking terribly and thus began a terribly scary (and expensive) night. I immediately started doing my home statis remedies but they weren’t working as they usually do. By 12:30pm he had collapsed in his litter box and started looking worse and worse. He was reminding me of my bunny Bean right before Bean died. Knowing I had to move fast I called the new 24 hour emergency vet and was glad to hear they treated rabbits (how much experience they had, I had no idea, but I had to take a chance). Thankfully the vet was extremely knowledgeable with rabbit statis emergencies (by then, I was already being charged the $170.00 appointment fee, pretty steep but I had no choice). She gave him fluids and a pain shot and wanted to keep him over night but I know Stormy and I knew that he would have a much better chance of recovering at home because he would be insanely stressed out there.
I brought him home and syringe fed him a pellet/baby food mix but by 2:00 I was terrified I was gonna lose him. He was laying in his litter box and I got so scared when he started having some runny poop dribbling out of his bum. I went to wake up my bf because I didn’t want to deal with it alone and when we went back he was washing his face. Then he started looking around as if he wanted something. I gave him some lettuce and there is no better sound in the world than what I heard : crunch crunch. And then as soon as he got sick, he was himself again. I’ve been stopping home all day checking on him and he seems fine.
It’s really frustrating not knowing why he got sick and why he gets this occasionaly, I feed him by the book. The bill ended up being $290.00!! but it’s comforting knowing this clinic is available.
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