lagadvocate
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I just got home from the vet. Carmel has been "not herself" lately. Her heart and lungs seemed to be working really hard. I guess I'm just overly watchful of that stuff since I lost my wonderful Buddy to heart failure a year ago. So I told the vet what was going on and he took her back for x-ray.
When the vet nurse brought her back she had a piece of tape on her ear marked nitro. My knees went to jelly. I knew it.
The vet came in and we looked at the x-rays. Her heart is enlarged and there is substantial fluid on her lungs. He'd already given her some lasix. He wants to keep her there for the day to do blood work and supportive care/observation. At the end of this day, we are going to discuss what the next course of action will be.
So I drove home without my sweet girl who's been with me for going on 7 years now. All of the memories of Buddy's last months came flooding back...meds, nebulizer treatments, that friggin nitro that made his sweet little ears red. How can this be happening to Carmel. Can I let her go through what he did? Why the heck do my poor bunnies keep getting heart failure!:grumpy
I'm just going crazy right now. I'm all shaky and can't stop crying. As I stood there and listened to what the vet was saying, I realized that I'd heard this same speech before from a different vet when Buddy was diagnosed. "Some rabbits do well with meds...blah blah blah." All I know is that Buddy's demise was drawn out thanks to me trying all of the treatments before he just couldn't go anymore.
This is just unreal. She's always been my super healthy girl. This is not right, this is just so wrong. The vet said he's going to be able to tell me when I go back whether or not she'd even be a candidate for handling the drugs. He said that her kidneys were oddly small for such a large rabbit. Whatever that means. Sorry this post was so long.
When the vet nurse brought her back she had a piece of tape on her ear marked nitro. My knees went to jelly. I knew it.
The vet came in and we looked at the x-rays. Her heart is enlarged and there is substantial fluid on her lungs. He'd already given her some lasix. He wants to keep her there for the day to do blood work and supportive care/observation. At the end of this day, we are going to discuss what the next course of action will be.
So I drove home without my sweet girl who's been with me for going on 7 years now. All of the memories of Buddy's last months came flooding back...meds, nebulizer treatments, that friggin nitro that made his sweet little ears red. How can this be happening to Carmel. Can I let her go through what he did? Why the heck do my poor bunnies keep getting heart failure!:grumpy
I'm just going crazy right now. I'm all shaky and can't stop crying. As I stood there and listened to what the vet was saying, I realized that I'd heard this same speech before from a different vet when Buddy was diagnosed. "Some rabbits do well with meds...blah blah blah." All I know is that Buddy's demise was drawn out thanks to me trying all of the treatments before he just couldn't go anymore.
This is just unreal. She's always been my super healthy girl. This is not right, this is just so wrong. The vet said he's going to be able to tell me when I go back whether or not she'd even be a candidate for handling the drugs. He said that her kidneys were oddly small for such a large rabbit. Whatever that means. Sorry this post was so long.
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