Tinkie A.D.

A bridge between the hands and the heart…

Hi Sweeties, I’m almost finished my CC dinner so I’ll update all yous inbetween mouthfuls!

So yesturday evening I got flipped over four times so Mamma decided she was bringing me up to bed with her. So I was bundled into my petbed and I was then tucked under a bunch of covers inbetween her and a stack of pillows. I stayed put all night and didn’t even try to wiggle out of the bed. Mamma got up at 5:30 to take away the wad of peed on stuffing (keleenex)and my poop, then she put more stuffing under my lady business and we went back to bed for a few more hours. So I got to sleep with her the whole night. So my smoocher is on the fritz and I went the whole night not giving Mamma any smooches, but finally this morning I started to give her a few.

So as soon as I was put in my house this morning I got flipped over on my side and couldn’t get up My head is only a wee wee bit tilted, its more like I’m leaning to one side a bit and the eye darting has stopped and there is no more reading that invisible paper. I’m chewing a bit of salad, mostly my dandelion and carrot though.

So I fianlly got to see Dr Deb and her and Mamma went over everything that has been going on. So this is the verdict. My ears are cleaned out pretty good, Deb said trying to clean them anymore would just compress the wax more. She said things look pretty good in there and she thinks Mamma cleaning them may have helped minimize possible inflamation. Now she also said that cats and dogs commonly get vestibular disease from unknown causes and it often goes away on its own with no treatment. She thinks if they get it, it must happen in buns too. So I will stay on Panacur anyway cause we know I have E.Cuniculi and my hind end weakness is working its way up one side of me to my front so it’s obviously doing more neurological damage.  I also get Metacam with the Pancuar to help with inflamation as its doing its job so that’s good for my head too. I’m taking a few days off right now and I’ll go back on for another three days and hopefully another three again after another rest. So I’m staying off the antibiotics as there is not currently any evidence of infeciton and I’m still recovering from the whole ordeal of going off food for three weeks from the penicilin. Both Deb and Mamma are pleased with my improvement after the initial onset of head tilt, so it is getting better. I will be getting my one herb twice a day now to help with dizziness as Mamma was noticing it wasn’t lasting 24 hours. My bladder situation is stable, no more pus and the amount of pee I am making is not evident of an infection so we’re not even going there!!

Now this flippin over business. *sigh* I flip the opposite way of my tilt so its not dizziness causing it. We are pretty sure its the progression of weakness on one side of my front. Because of my splay leg on back left I use my front right leg held further back to hold myself up, but that side is getting weak now and its basically “deformed” vet’s words So my leg gives out and the splayside pushes me over onto my side or back. Deb is hoping my splay leg which is increasing in its paralysis might eventually go strait out behind me like the other back leg and that would make me more stable. AS it is now my whole spine is all crooked. My hips are bend weird to one side and now my shoulders are pointing in the other direction and my right front leg is all bent funny at the wrist and I can’t bring it forward into a normal position anymore. So I’m a crooked old lady now and it sucks. Mamma is thinking I am starting to get frustrated and depressed by how my body continues to challenge me. I guess I’m finally getting tired. I don’t have any pain though, unless Deb really gets trying to move the vertibra when she does chiropractic on me then I’ll fuss like I’m in pain or if Mamma tries to move my fused leg too much. But she massages me gently and I don’t mind being held and picked up or going in my cart. But I am spending more and more time just resting in my pet bed with my chin on the side and my eyes closed.

I enjoyed some apple tonight, it was nice and crispy and sweet. My weight is almost back up to the 1.1 kg so that’s good too, but mind you Mamma is syringing me lots so that helps. I can still go pretty fast in my cart when I sprint, but I do sit around alot in it and with my front leg getting tired I have a tendency to stagger on the spot going in circles. I think this really upsets Mamma when I do this, she always brings me out when she find this. Sometimes I’ll go and lean against the cat’s scratching post or the door jam, then I don’t do the circles

So I think this is my lot in life now, pretty much its as good as its ever gonna be and that is depressing if I let Mamma think on it. I still enjoy my snuggles, although my smoocher is a bit off right now I know I’ll want to smooch more again soon~ I hope. So I’m gonna take each day as it comes and we’ll see how things go. My pulse was good today so I may be tired, but I’m not dreaming of the bridge or anything, not today anyway.  Getting old with E.C. sucks a big terd At least I get to sleep in a nice big warm bed with Mamma!

I love all you buns!! xox T  (Sorry this post sucks)

Hi my bunny friends 

Well I almost afraid to say anything since the last good update I made ended up being fleeting and then Mamma saw me getting much worse just hours later, BUT..

Things seem to be looking up in some aspects since my ears were cleaned. My eyedarting is pretty much gone, but sometimes Mamma will still seee moving my head from side to side following someting invisible, but she is wondering if this is from my increased front end weakness on one side, we’re not entirely sure about this but I’ll tell you though I am still dizzy, I don’t think its nearly as bad as it was, but the world is still in motion. My head is not tilted today, maybe just a wee tiny bit to one side, but if you didn’t know know I was fighting head tilt you’d never guess. so all this is major improvement!! Yay, thank you!

Now the only thing that still is a problem is that I seem to be more depressed again and I’m not eating as much I was there a few days back, but I’m getting the exra CC so help me out. Now the other thing is that I have been getting flipped over on my back and unable to get up again quite a bit. Daddy found me a few days ago like this in the morning, I looked like I was just sleeping I wasn’t moving or nothing, I think I almost gave him a heart attack, and Mamma has found me like this as well three times over the last two days. I am very quiet and don’t make much of fuss, but then over all I am fairly weak so I don’t have a lot of energy to to struggle. I know this worries Mamma, she doesn’t want to keep me from moving around since I’ve got little muscle left and not using it would be a very bad thing so Mamma wants me to keep freedom to move around, but I think she is very stressed about the idea of me being stuck on my back for more than a few minutes. My house has been  pretty much cleared of obstacles but I can even get flipped over getting snagged on some salad on the floor or if I get the towel bunched up a bit under my back legs.

So I think this time Mamma will get my appointment right, we’ll see what Deb can do with getting my ears cleaned out a bit better and I think the acupunture can help with the invisible reading. I know Mamma will not have me on antibioitics without knowing its one that will forsure do the trick IF I got an infeciton seems I’m having so much trouble not tolerating them. I’m still not fully recovered from my last tussel with antibiotics and Mamma doesn’t want to take any chances with over stressing my system on one that may not work. I think she’ll ask about something more for the dizziness, she will try increasing the dose of my herb tonight and see what happens with that.

Well that’s it for today, Mamma has got a ton of stuff she has to get done before tomorrow and she is way behind so she’d better hop to it!!

I was very sad indeed to hear about Stewart on bunspace.com this morning, I’m glad though he had some time to say good bye with his family and enjoy some tasty noms before he had to go. He was so strong and very brave as is his family, cancer is such a devestating thing in people and in animals, it leaves our humans so powerless and all they can do is wait and watch for the right time time to help us pass, without taking time from us and without causing suffering, I know it would be  sheer agony, the waiting… But now Stewart is freed from all that and the healing can begin for his family and for sweet Grace Mae.  xox T

Um, I was a little early for my appointment!!

OK Mamma is officially a Doe Head!! My appointment is for MONDAY at 2:30, not today So I went to town for the fun of it! OK I am still about the same and i am still eating. Mamma has been still thinking this might not be the E.C. My first episode of Head tilt was because my ears were so packed up with wax I got an infeciton and after a few weeks of cleanings, finally the mineral oil that was beign used to soften up the wax seeped down to my ear drum but we think it might have been perferorated? Then I got tilted right after and it took a couple weeks to get better, then I got hit with the mother load of tilts ~E.C we think a month later. Anyway Mamma says I must have been a candle maker in a past life cause I got this thing about making alot of wax, and my ears so hard to clean cause I am so tiny and even the vet and vet Tech have trouble doing this. Anway my last quick episode of head tilt quickly went away after Deb cleaned my ears, I did get worse for  a few days though, but then I was good.

So today mamma decided she is not gonna wait for MOnday to check this out, she looked as best she could and sure enough the side I am tilted on is the side with the biggest ball of wax, she says it looks like a candle about to come out of my ear!! So she got her glasses on and in the best light she could find she went in there with tweezers to grab the wad at the lowest point she could and pull it out and yes a huge chunk came out. She did this for both sides and then went in with the ear cleaner and some q tips to try and scoop out what she can. So now we wait and see if I clear up again in a few days. Mamma will get the tech to clean them again on Monday. Its a guess but we’ll see what happens. I’ll stay on my Pancur anway and  I’m coping so far with the eye darting, it seems to come and go in its severity.

So that’s all to report, not too much really. Mamma did buy some cat grass today and some pansies for Gracie, she loves to tend her own little garden, she’s kind of an Obsessive Compuslive weeder, problem is she thinks the pansies and the cat grass are the weeds!! Some lady in the grocery stores looks at mamma and asked what does she do with the cat grass? Mamma looked at her said, I give it to my cat!! hehe Then she said no its for my bunny I make a planter for her. I think the lady thought Mamma was some kind of freak. She did say, Gee I guess you love you bunny!! Duh!  What a dummy!  Of course I think Mamma could get some kind of award for her level of bunny slaveness!! hehe Gracie will be so surprised tomorrow when she finally gets out on the deck

Thank you for all the helpful suggestions you buns made about different meds, Mamma does want to disguss these with Deb on Monday depending on how things are going, but we both decided to hope for the best and that things will get better swiftly!!  Lots of love to all you Sweeties!! xoxo T

One step forward, two steps BACK

OK I got to say this now and get it out of the way~ Being sickly SUCKS

I know I shouldn’t have said nothing yesturday, just a few hours after yesturday’s post when Daddy was saying good bye to me cause he was leaving for work, he saw me leaning against the stairs in my cart and my head was tracking major. Its like I’m reading a giant newpaper, my head and eyes are going from one side to the other, the whole world is moving under my feet

Mamma noticed I was meditating quite a bit yesturday but there was not sign of the eye darting thing every time she watched me, then it came on real fast and all of a sudden again. I guess it was too good to be true to have symptoms start and then disappear in less then 24 hours. Head tilt is usually a long long ordeal

So Mamma put me in my meditation corner last night in the dark so I could calm down and settle things a bit and then brought me out for snuggles and my CC which went OK. We ended up staying staying up pretty late so I could snuggle on mamma’s shoulder.

So today I am still reading that invisible newspaper and I’m starting to act a bit depressed again *sigh* I just thought I had doged this bullet again and had my heart set of feeling better. I am eating a bit on my own, but not as much as the ohter day, both Mamma and Daddy thinks its cause I am frustrated a bit. I’ve also developed the first bit of actual tilt today about 10 degrees so far. I am grateful this episode of Head Tilt is coming on slow, that is a blessing, my previous cases came on fast and furious and it terrified Mamma cause every day I was worse and worse for like two weeks before finally I started to show tiny bits of improvement.

Mamma keeps smooching me and telling me I’ll be OK, that she’ll be with me through all this and it won’t be last time, its gonna better this time, I hope she is right.

Going to the vet this afternoon. Mamma will get Deb to check and clean my ears for me to check for infection, mamma still wonders if it could be my ears and not the E.C. but I’ll stay on the Pancur for a bit anyay. So for the meds are going OK and my tummy seems to be Ok, but I never did really get back to normal after that 3 week period of not eating. This all came on just to soon, I didn’t even get a rest from all this cwap. I am most annoyed cause today is the first beautiful warm day and I could have gone outside, but I need to stay where its darkish to help minimise the sensory input for my eyes. I feel pretty woozy as it is, so that will also mean no exercise and that’s bad too cause you know what they say, Use it or loose it, and I already don’t have much left to loose I hope Mamma will still let me go in my wheel cart for a little bit just to stretch out my front legs and remember what its like to move around freely, for as long as i can anyway. Mamma thinks the cart might help me from flippin over on my side or back, kind of like training wheel for bunnies. Its a theory anyway, we’ll take it slow and see what happens.

Did I say how much this sucks? xox T

Today I am Gandi….

Hello Bunny Buddies…

Well yesturday was most excellent. I had a nice quite day lounging and relaxing and had several episodes of eating salad and even without Mamma hand feeding me. My energy was good and my mood as well, over all it was a good day. I was still getting my CC mash of course, Mamma figures she is a professional syringer now and will remain one until you know when. I was surprisingly perky even with my little adventure the day before, but then car rides and little adventures have always helps bring me out of my episodes in the past as well. I guess I might be prone to depression when dealing with these extended not eating periods, but hay can you blame me? So it was all happy happy, smooch smooch here.

Now today is another story entirely. Today I am Gandi. I am in deep spritiual meditation and have refused all food. I did sit with some stems up my nose hopin this would keep Mamma at bay, but sadly no. I was bundled on the couch and she began to attemp hand feeding. Usually tickling my lips with said tasties will encourage a few annoyed nibbles then I’d eat for real, but today I am refusing to to meet her half way. I did fall to the temptatation to some very juicy carrot and I have an orange face to prove it, but all else, no thank you! So Mamma was trying to cram some herb stems into my yap so I thought I’d try to get her to believe I was eating so I started very tiny chewing motions almost like grinding my teeth as she was trying to feed more in, but basically it all just fell out while I was doing my “fake” chewing~ Dang it she figured it out!! Then she tried just shoving the salad up inbetween my front and side teeth and I’d let the salad hang there like a farmer with a peice of hay out of his yap! She didn’t like that either

So I’ve had my CC for breaky and I hear more is coming in a few hours. Mamma refuses to allow me my spiritual retreat! No respect that woman, its all her way! She even said she won’t let me smooch her until I eat something!! NOW that is so unfair, its not right and I won’t stand for it, I gave her the most annoyed face I could when she said that to me!

So I have finished my period of detox now and today I started my new herb for my tummy. I had one drop of the tincture, we’ll see what happens. I am to start slow on this to see if anything adverse happens with my appetite and to increase the dose slowly. OK, and I started back on my “Bacon” (vitamin B complex) Oh how I missed that stuff, I love it so much, it is so tasty!!

So I also heard Daddy telling Mamma I need another “Brazilian” Cwap! and a Mani Pedi too, apparently Mamma thinks I am looking entirely too much like Sylvia Brown~ is that a bad thing? Who is this Sylvia Brown chick any how? Oh well at least I hear the “Hellians” Gracie and Puds are in for Mani Pedis and a Butt Pluckin too hehe I know Puds just hates those!! Well at least that is some good entertainment for me anyway watchin those two get all cranky and try to beat up Daddy!!

So Mamma has once again piled up a huge stack of salad under my nose, but I am keepin Gandi close to my heart today and we’ll see what revelation I receive during my deep meditaion! I’ll let yous all know what happens…

Much love and lots of smooches seems I can’t smooch Mom, I hope was fibing about that, xox T