Tinkie A.D.

A bridge between the hands and the heart…

HELLO Bunnies!!

hehe, I’m STILL doing GOOD!! Yup, I think I have officially baffled my vet! I was in yesterday for my weekly acupuncture and check up and she is still shakin her head about this slippery elm diet (and Grapeseed Extract) Mamma had to play with the ratio of my S.E. to alfalfa meal cause I still seem to have trouble swallowing (but we are not gonna worry or focus on that!!) So now I’m eating mostly the slippery elm with just a bit of alfafa. Deb looked in my mouth and everything looks good, she can’t feel any swelling or nothing that would point to the cause of my trouble swallowing, so for now I’ll take my mash a bit more runny and with how good things keep improving we are NOT worried. Grape seed extract has super healin qualities, like fighting allergies, cancer, heart disease, blood pressure, wound healing and a ton of other stuff, its a a very powerful antioxidant!! And you know, us buns are so sensative, these kinds of therapies work wonders on us and I think I am the proof!! Mamma says even my dandruff is gone and my fur is startin to look alot better, she says I look heathier, she can see now too!

 Anway my weight is back up to 1.1 kg, my new fightin weight! LOL and Deb even told Mamma that up until the last two weeks I had been steadily declining each week for a few months. I think she figured that was the new trend and it was just a matter of time and now I’m doing way better that I have in months and months!! I don’t know why this is possible ( well I do beleive its the Slippery Elm Grapeseed stuff) but its happening so I’ll take it!! As far as my acupunture points, only my liver points were a bit hot and Mamma has put me back on one of the chinese herb combo that Deb had perscribed for me before so hopefully things will settle down. But I am feeling good.

My splay leg has almost full range of motion again and for over a month I dragged it behind me and Deb thought for sure it would soon fuse like my other one. So in my cart and I am super fast!! Daddy puts me down and I launch out of his hands like I kicked on the Turbo or something, I’m there and them I’m NOT Did I tell yous, he had to put on a third leg with a wheel a few weeks back? Well that is off now, I don’t need that sissy S**T  OOh I am a bad girl, I got a bit of Potty mouth today

Mamma finally got the last of the herbs for the garden. she got some super “Gigantico” hehe, that’s what the brand is called, HONEST!! anyway she got two things of Cilantro, two Basil and an Italian Parsley. The plants are huge so we’ll be eating off them in no time! Oh and I know why they call that salad green “Rocket” rocket, it sprouted in less then a week!! Daddy was so shocked he thought it was the weeds, but Mamma says weeds don’t grow in rows! hehe. We are still watchin for the Dandies to sprout, Mamma thinks maybe she saw some, but at this point it could be regular weeds not the fancy kind like UK Dandies!! hehe soon though,I got my toes crossed.

Oh Mamma has been a bad girl and now she if feeling guilty and stressed Daddy has been off work now over a week cause he had to do a major repair on the truck and we thought things had picked up at his work, but now we find out lots of the other drivers haven’t been out in nearly two weeks So we are hopin he’ll get some work soon… Too bad we can’t perk up the ecomonmy with some of those herbs, but Mamma says it doesn’t work like that Too bad… anway back to Mamma being bad. She and Daddy were cruising the web and saw an ad for a cute little camcorder thingie, and yes OMG she ordered one! She didn’t bother to consider that she shouldn’t be spending money on stuff like that right now, but she did it anyway. Well it arrived yesturday and now she is running around everywhere with this dang thing stuck in everybun face!! LOL she hasn’t come up with anything Youtube worthy yet, but its a only a matter of time. Anwway she says its super easy to use and it has nice audio too which her camera couldn’t do with its little movie feature and this is in HD (Whatever!!??) so apparenly its got nice quality picture and can film in low light conditions which her regular camera couldn’t do either. So I guess I am desitined to become a serious Video Blogopher since Mamma says its so easy I could probably use it, even without the thumbs!

Well that’s it for today, its cool here , I was hopin for sun so I could get out in the garden and get those herbs planted and possible make a movie!!

Smooches!! xoxo T

Oh I want to share this picture Rascal made for me ages ago. I finally feel safe to actaully say it, I think I’m finally out of the woods!!! Thank YOU Rascal xoxox

hehe Kiddies, OMG I’m  having the best adventure ever!! And I didn’t even have to leave our place, LOL!

It was just the long weekend here in Canada and Mamma and Daddy have been working on the garden all weekend, and thankfully Daddy was home all week so Wednesday was the last day to get as much done as they could since the lawn guys were coming today to mow the lawn, would you believe it was the hottest day ever, 27 degrees Celsius!! Anyway Mamma let me come out again to help finish the planting of the veggies she picked up at the nursery on Tuesday.

First off Daddy had to dig into the end of one of the beds to turn in some sand so that the carrot roots can easily grow deeper into the ground and I just HAD to supervise, making sure he was doing it right. After me crawling around in the dirt for a while my diaper came right off so Mamma let just get all down and dirty all natural, although I did keep my shirt on, A girl has to have some dignity!!

Trinket enjoying the garden

Hehe, at one point I got right down into the hole and then I couldn’t get out so Daddy had to rescue me! But I did make sure he got it deep enough. So then we finally got all the baby veggies into the ground so they get growing.

Daddy still had one more of those raised beds to get all weeded out and he had to dig out all the overgrown grass and their roots and I feel so bad for him, it took him all day out in that hot sun. Mamma finished up the planting and digging up some of the over weeded perennials in the borders. So I got to supervise from my shady little spot under the wheel barrow. I had my water, some salad and a nice blankie, but do you think I would stay under there? NO way, Every time Mamma looked I was out scootin around the bed and hanging out in the sun. I have to tell you, the hot sun felt great on my bony bum, even Dr Deb said the sun would be very energizing and warming for my achy bones. Mamma was a bit skeptical though, a black bunny out in the hot sun? She kept grabbin me and sticking me back under the shade, but a few minutes later there I’d be out shuffling along in my weird way. Mamm was just amazed at how fast and how far I could go. It was the most getting around that Mamma has seen me do in months and months. I just kept on going all day long.

Finally Mamma couldn’t take the heat and sat down under a tree with me but the doggies came over and kept kissing me!! EWWW! They would kiss my back feeties and kiss me on the head. Mamma was so impressed with them, they were very gentle and slow with me to not scare me. I even started trying to shuffle away from the shade and go back into the sun again and the Doggies kept sniffing on me, but never once got too nosey with me.

Well finally around 5 o’clock we went inside and I then I ate two salads that evening!! After both Mamm and Daddy had a cool bath to get all clean and re-energized themselves, then I got my sponge bath. So I ended the day all clean and fresh and smelling all sweet!! 

So, Yay I am eating  Hobbit style. I’m still getting my slippery elm slurry with my Grape Seed Extract and Mamma thinks it has to be making a huge difference. I have so much more energy and even my splayed leg is working a whole lot more. Tonight Daddy set up my cart again and I was zooming around like I used to a few months ago. I can’t believe how close it was to all slippin away a few weeks ago and how its finally turning around now.

So since I was eating so well and I seem so much stronger Tuesday night both Mamma and Daddy decided to see if I could stay in my hutch for bedtime to eat my salad since I won’t eat much up in Mamma’s bed. So Daddy was stayin up watchin me while watching some TV and Mamma still had the “Tinkie Vision” on and you know what, 20 minutes later I was laying on my back floundering with my feet up in the air and Daddy heard nothing until Mamma came downstairs to rescue me and take me back up to bed with her. That’s it, Daddy is fired as far as keepin watch on me!!

I am just so happy things are going so much better. Today we had to go to town to get Daddy’s truck so naturally I had to go with so I wouldn’t end up on my back while they were gone. I am a bit tired today but not as much as you’d think, I still got enough beans in me to go whizzing around in my cart tonight now that it fits me again!!

I just can’t believe that after nearly a month and half of not eating and getting weaker and weaker, I could feel this hopeful again. Today I am a happy bunny and my Mommy is a happy Mommy and Daddy is a happy Daddy!! xox T

T waiting in the truck for her Vet appointment~ Lookie, she's EATING!!

OK Kiddies I got to the vet yesterday and she was impressed!!

 She said my pulse was the strongest its been in weeks!! Mamma discussed with her all the changes she made in my diet and Dr Deb even though she is studying to get her certification in Veterinary Herbology had not come across Slippery Elm in her studies and information! Although she says its a “cooling” herb and I mostly require “warming” for my system, obviously is cooling down any inflammation in my tummy and my throat so its a good thing. She even complimented the poopies I brought to show her! LOL

So mamma had noticed too that for the last month and half I had stopped drinking my water and every night, and in my water she puts my homeopathic treatment for my kidneys which had (she totally believes) saved my kidneys from total breakdown over a year and half ago. Anyway on my last visit Deb commented that my acupuncture Kidney points had been getting hotter and hotter each week pointing to the deterioration of their optimal functioning BUT since then Mamma had started syringing my water with my homeopathic treatment in it and THIS week my kidney points were totally normal, no excess heat showing any problems!! WELL I don’t know for sure, but we really think its the homeopathic doing something!! yay this was good news

My weigh in was still 1kg, but that’s amazing considering that Mamma suspects that I had dropped a lot of weight earlier last wee with all that choking business. Oh and my Lady Businesslooked so much better by the afternoon Deb said not to give me more meds, so no needle and I’m just to continue on with my new diet and herbal mix that Mamma has put in it. The only negative thing from my check up was that my breathing was a bit faster than normal, but there was not any sounds of any rattles or indication of any pneumonia. Mamma wonders if my breathing is faster cause I’m not getting the exercise I had been getting before so now I’m officially a couch potato so I guess I bit out of shape.

So Deb also said to get me out in the sun and the fresh air which we are doing and she thinks I am doing so much better so she is very impressed with the slippery elm diet I think she’ll be investigating it further!!

So we picked up a few more veggies and greens for the garden so I think I’ll be out in the garden planting some more stuff today, I’ll get Mamma to post some photos later of the finished beds!!

Oh I have to tell yous I have suddenly starting eatin Salad like a proper Hobbit!! OMG yay I am so hungry so I’m just stuffin my little gob!! Daddy gave me two servings last night while we were watchin the tellie. So right now I don’t like the dandies out of the yard, they have flowered now so they are very bitter but Mamma found a bunch in the grocery store and they are yummy!! I am eating lots of that and tons of cilantro too. I was even eatin in the truck on the way home from the vet yesterday. I think Deb must have been working overtime on the nomie points with her needles cause I’m still chewin this morning. I haven’t even had my S.E. slurry yet but I’ll save room for that too!! So Mamma says I’m being like a proper little Hobbit, I tell you I’m so glad to see her happy and relieved!

Ok kiddies I’ve got to tuck in properly, I’ll come back later with some photos but for now I’m gonna EAT!! hehe Love yous!! xox T

Hi Kiddies, sorry I haven’t updated in a while, Mamma has been “spring cleaning” and by the time evening comes she’s been too tired to do much typin for me so the days have gotten ahead of me.

Poo Update~ no new cecals out of Gracie yet. Mamma has put her in the carrier once more but she clenched her cheeks all night and wouldn’t give us any cecals Poor girl sat in her litter box long enough when Mamma let her out. I can’t say I’m too eager to try again so the longer the wait the better. Also Dr Deb said for Mamam to syringe it to me anyway even if I won’t eat them whole Uck!! And I don’t have to eat my own if I don’t want them, which mostly I don’t want nowadays. Mamma thinks its because of all the meds.

 OK I went to see Dr Deb on Monday and she said I didn’t need any more needles for right now, this I am very happy about. I also started to eat a little bit on my own Sunday night which really shocked Mamma but made her very happy. Its not a lot but I even was eating in bed. Deb didn’t want to do too much seems I’m finally starting to eat a bit. Its been several days since I’d eaten anything voluntarily. I’m still mostly hangin out in my pet bed, I’m not up for much exercise so I just rest lots.

Oh I got a sponge bath on Monday and it was great!! You know I can only clean my bib and my front paws, I don’t have the strength or balance to do much more than that. so Mamma got some warm water and a face cloth and she dipped it in the water and squeezed out the excess then wiped me all over. when she was doing my belly, I lay on my back in my pet bed and I was lickin her hand while she was cleaning every part of me. It was so relaxing and nice, like a giant tongue! She even did inside my ears and each paw and “lady business” Then she went over every area again with the flea comb (well not my lady business, you can’t comb that!) while I was dryin off and after my fur became silky soft!! Mamma says it was so nice to cuddle me after.

The only nasty thing is after my bath I got the runny cecal poos and I’ve been filling up a very stinky and messy diaper all afternoon, and again today Its so frustrating after being all fresh and clean now I stink most of the time Mamma wonders if its because I just started eating my green again. Hopefully it will pass soon. My regular poos look good though.

I got another bunderful surprise in the mail!! OMG Bella and Pepper sent me the bestest pressies!! Thank you sweeties!! Mamma tried taking some pics but they didn’t turn out so she’ll try again tomorrow when we get the good light in the house again. Anyway they sent Mamma some Dandie and some Rocket (mamma loves Jamie Oliver and he’s always goin on about how good Rocket is) and Corn Salad seed. so Mamma and Daddy are gonna revamp the garden they let go to weed 4 years ago (after their beloved B died and plant us buns some tasty greens! Yay, maybe I’ll eat them hehe Anyway Bella and Pepper also sent me the coolest T-shirt, its a black muscle shirt that says “Born to be Wild” and its got a motorcycle in rhinestones!! Bad AND sparkly!! hehe I’m wearing it right now.  Then they also sent me this cute pink bowl that says “Pampered Princess”~ Who me??? hehe and a soft fuzzy pink blankie and some chewy thingies and some apple treats! Gracie and Puds already started throwing around the chewies! Here is one photo Mamma didn’t delete, but you can’t see the pretty pink color!! Poopy camera! I’m lookin a bit cranky here cause Mamma was hounding me to eat that nice salad and I didn’t want it and she wasn’t takin NO for an answer! I’m wearing the Tshirt but you can tell in this photo, more tomorrow!! That is IF Mamma can tear herself away from all that cleaning! I guess I shouldn’t complain, she cleaned out my house real good and vacuumed all my stuffies, I wasn’t so sure though we she tried to vacuum my whiskers!

Oh Mamma says I am the most spoilt bunny in the whole universe!! Oh Mamma you are exaggerating just a bit!! hehe xoxo T

Well kiddies, I think Mamma has officially lost her MIND!! I can’t believe but she actually thinks I’m gonna eat somebun else’s cecal!!!  NOT…

So poor Gracie sat in her carrier with her cone on for 5 hours. Mamma did give her some hay and some of our tastiest treats, but she had to sit in the laundry room with Mamma while she was spring cleaning in there. Mamma was very surprised that Gracie was such a good girl, she had several naps and munched on some tasties and somehow she figured out how to get her little paw inside the cone so she could lick her paws and wipe her face. Mamma kept makin her pull her leg out but she’d even rest with her paw through it. Anyway, Mamma wanted to figure out what time of day G made her cecals so she made her stay in there until finally she made some. Well at 8 pm she finally made a stinkie!! I don’t know why but Mamma and  Daddy were very happy about this. “Big deal” I said, I can make a ton of poopies if I want to!!

OK so then Mamma came at me with G’s stinkie ass Cecals and OMG do they stink, they are nothing like my own and I was not impressed with Mamma started stickin those in my face. I tried to fake her out and pretend that I took a bite, but she didn’t fall for it. she even tried to get me to eat some of my own first and I wouldn’t do that either. So she tried for quite a while, she even put some of my bacon on them to see if I would eat them. NO I do not like Bacon on my poo or anybun else’s poo, thank YOU!! Finally Mamma put the two little stinkie nuggets in a baby food container and let me have a break.

An hour later Mamma made the mistake of opening that baby food container and OMG, it was like a huge stink bomb went off, both Mamma and Daddy started gaggin and almost passed out from the smell! Poor Gracie, I think she might have been mad that her beautiful cecal was being subject to my rejection and their revoltion! I guess she really wanted it for herself.

So I ended up with some of the cecals in my yap, but I figured out how to spit them out. Mamma finally gave up for the night, but I hear she’s planning on trying again in a few days. I think I might take my new skateboard and run away from home, but its raining today so I guess I’ll have to wait. I also have  a problem deciding which clothes to pack.

So last night when it was bedtime, I faced my bum to MOM and she had her back me, I know she’s mad at me and frustrated that i won’t eat nothing and I won’t try the ceals. She caught me just the other day eating a wad of Gracie’s fur that Puds yanked out, but I don’t care anymore, I’m mad at her too!! Well this morning I was still ignoring her when we woke up, but she pulled me over to her and started to smooch on me so I know she still loves me so I kissed her too and nuzzled her for ages just to let her know I’ll forgive her, but I still don’t want those stinkin cecals

Well Buns,

We don’t have any luck yet. This is way harder than we ever thought. Gracie does not want me to have her cecals Last night Mamma had a talk with G on the dining room table and asked her if she’d help me. Then Mamma did get the diaper on her alright and she sat there for several minutes letting Mamma pet her and she was fine. Mamma even let her wear one the bridal tiaras!! Well then it was time to put her in her house and she just hopped right out of it!

Mamma tired a few more times and even put a Tshirt on her and taped the shirt to the diaper, well that’s when Gracie started to panic a bit. I feel so bad for her and I think Mamma did too. Poor Gracie jumped around a bit and tried to get out of diaper and she couldn’t so then she just lay in her corner panting. That when Mamma almost started to cry and said the hell with this, she didn’t want to traumatize her more.

Several minutes after getting all her gear off, Gracie just hung out on her top level in his house scowling at Mamma but she was quickly fine and returned to her normal self. So like a pit bull with a stick, Mamma decided to gingerly try out a cone on her and see what happened. NOT good

She got in on Ok, but when she tried to hop around in her house naturally it would hang up on stuff and she couldn’t move around good. Gracie managed to get up on her top shelf to rest and then quickly decided she wanted down again, Uh OH, that when it happened, she fell face first and landed with the cone side down and her body sticking straight up in the air, she was stuck like that. Poor thing was shocked and didn’t struggle and Mamma grabbed her so fast I’m not sure if Gracie actually knew what happened. Thank Goodness she was OK, Mamma would never have forgiven herself if she had been hurt. Obviously the collar came off and Mamma decided to think this through a bit more.

Mamma was thinkin about getting cecals from someone else’s bunny, but… who knows what household bacteria they got floating around or what pathogens are naturally present in those buns. I think it would be nice to traumatize someones else’s bun, but Gracie has been my house mate for 5 years and chances are what she’s got or I got, so Mamma thinks this is the safest as this treatment is controversial and potentially dangerous if I were to be compromised with something while I’m already so sick. So she believes if we are going to do this, it has to be Gracie seems her health is immaculate and she and I are as good as sisters (although she already hates me, what’s a few cecals amongst family!!)

So after a bit more reading, apparently buns eat and then for next four hours that’s when they pass the regular poo balls, its in the next four hours that they begin to pass the cecals. So Mamma’s idea is this. Give Gracie a nice feed in the morning and then put the cone on her but put her in a smaller carrier with a nice blankie and some hay. she tired it last night and well although it went well for Gracie, she was calm the whole time and didn’t freak out at all, she didn’t give us any cecals Mamma had her in the carrier for 2 hours. It seems that Gracie could only move around a bit the cone didn’t bother her too much other then when she wanted to wash her face. She kept licking the inside of the cone and wiping the outside with her paw. Mamma will try this method again today, this time she’ll let Gracie wait 6 hours after eating then she’ll go in the carrier with the cone for the last two hours of that 4 hour window of cecal production, maybe we’ll have some luck?

Gracie seems just like normal today, she’s had her salad and now she is enjoying some very tasty hay that Aunti Paula sent us, its a real treat and
Gracie seems to have put all of last night behind her, she didn’t even threaten me this morning!!

OK Kiddies, I forgot to update a few details yesterday. We have given up on the appetite stimulants. Mamma mentioned to Deb she thought it worked that first day but not the second. Deb said it was probably the acupuncture that got me eating for the day, and it always just lasts a day when I do get eating from a treatment. Too bad I couldn’t have acupuncture everyday, then I’d eat every day!! Not very practical I guess and I’d have to become a millionaire to afford it!! Maybe an acupuncturist will adopt me!? We still hold hope this cecal transfaunation so to speak will be what will get me going again. apparently there is an actual procedure where cecals from a healthy bun can be injected into  the GI tract via a catheter tube up the butt.I was sent a bit of info about this by another bunny here on bunspace, so I guess our idea is not so crazy. OOh this sounds so scary, I hope eating them will do the trick. But I have to say it is a relief to hear about this though, I think we are on the right track here.

Oh a funny story Aunti sent us a ton of tasty hay again and a few pressies!! Yay, Aunti you spoil me so much!! Anyway the best was the this gorgeous and luxurious fleece tied blankie and Mamma decided to fold it in half and put it in my carrier. Oh boy it is so nice and cozy in there now, I love it!! Well at the vet they got this resident cat Scooter, he’s a big young boy and a bit crazy but he likes me and he tried to steal my salad and crackers. Well yesterday mamma had me crawling on the floor in my diaper while we waiting to get in to see Deb, Scooter went right into my carrier and snuggled down in my new blankie!! I barely had it broken in and there he was!! He refused to get out and he napped in there the whole time I was there, at the end of my appointment Deb pulled him out and before Mamma got me back in, he went back in! OMG that cat is so spoilt!! He has a very nice cushy and comfy bed that was gifted to him by another client and I said to him, OK Scooter, you want my carrier then I’ll trade you for you bed, he said no way!! What a saucy feline!!

OK that’s it for now, sorry these are always so long I’ll let yous know how things go with Gracie this afternoon, we’ll keep our toes crossed for sure. I’ll only need a few of her cecals and I guess I’ll need a few treatments as long as I’m on the antibiotics, Poor Gracie, I wouldn’t want to be her right now. I’m sure she’ll be thinking of a way to report Mamma for her abuse. At least she is getting lots of treats out of the deal and pellets which she hasn’t had in well over a year, you’d think she’d be happy about that!

Poor Gracie, even the tiara didn’t cheer her up!! We got a ton of treats and I got the new blankie and this new bunny friend to snuggle with. Hehe the little white bunny hops when you wind him up. Mamma got some seeds to plant for us and a cute little bunny pin and of course she got some treats to share with Daddy~ that is if he’s nice!!

OMG, two minutes before Mamma was loading me up for the vet that’s when it started, cecal all over the place. I’ve passed 4 huge loads since 2pm LOL!! hehe I love to get Mamma worried but its all for the good! OK this is what we have learned!!

The pro and pre biotics that are in my Fibreplex and in my own CC mix are not naturally found in the bunny gut or cecum, this is why treating with these is so controversial. also when we eat these things it gets killed off by the PH levels in our tums, so…. Its a crap shoot wheather I am getting any benefit from them, although Mamma insists the Fibreplex stuff is so awesome cause of the extra fibre I am not getting in my diet.

also whether I am getting enough nutrients through just my food I don’t know for sure, you’d think so but what is more worrisome to Mamma is the proper natural bacteria levels in my gut.

Last summer is when I started all this not eating crap for weeks on end, always after the antibiotics and although I did rebound somewhat last fall, this year I just keep loosing more and more desire to eat. So Mamma thinks my natural levels need to be re-established, obviously the fibreplex isn’t doing it for me yet.

So through all this Mamma not seeing any cecals from me has made her really think and explore some stuff on the net and she finally found this great article http://www.hrschicago.org/gitractfr.html So the theory is that healthy cecals from a healthy donor can be ingested to re-establish the healthy bacteria in the gut, but they MUST be ingested whole, if they are broken then the bacteria gets killed of in our tums in the first bit its in there, the natural mucus coating to the little globs is what protects it from this. Mamma noticed when buns eat theirs its very daintily and they just sort of mouth and swallow it whole!! So in conclusion Mamma has wondered if my whacked out bacteria in my gut form all the antibiotics over the last several month may be exactly why I am not eating…

Mamma discussed all this thinkin with Deb and she says it makes such total sense and its so natural and simple in theory it just might be what is needed. Mamma sent an email to Dana Krempel so we’ll see what she says about this as well. but Mamma really thinks that is it!

Now to get cecal from Gracie!! Deb says to be careful G doesn’t get mad and eat the diaper cause then we’ll have more problems and she was also a bit cautious if G has E.C or not and then me getting reinfected. But to get her tested and wait for the results would be weeks yet, Mamma thinks G is healthy she has never been sick so she thinks its worth the risk, seems I’m already sickly what do we have to loose!!?

Oh and Deb thought maybe it was the antibiotics that was why I stopped making the cecals, ti was right after my needle I stopped making any.

I want to thank all the buns for their input and advice, Mamma feels so much better about it then she did this morning. she thinks this whole no cecals thing is what actually has helped her figure out the bigger picture. Its so weird how the answers to problems seem to come to her like that!! I really think we’re on to something!!

OH BTW, DAddy has made me a little skateboard and now I am zooming so fast its not funny!! Mamma says I might need a helmet now. I’ll try to get some photos for yous!! and of course of Gracie in her diaper, I hope she doesn’t fight it or she’ll have to wear a cone too!! She is so gonna hate me     xox T

OK buns, I am off to the vets again for my second penicillin needle this afternoon and we’ll think maybe of trying more of the appetite stimulants, but I have to tell you things are getting weird with me.

The first dose of appetite stimulant worked and I seemed to nibble quite a bit more that day, but still not “normal”, the second dose the next day did nothing, in fact maybe I slept more and that was about it, so I go the sedative effects not the munchie effects.

Mamma has been stuffin the CC in my Yap, lots, three times aday I like I get near 100 cc per day so she is not being stingy but here is the bizarre thing. I usually make alot of ceals. For months and months my cecal production has been high and I ususlly will make them at any time of the day. With my paralysis I can’t reach them but I eat them OK on my own and Mamma usually takes them out of my house too cause I make so many and I do eat them she doesn’t want the extras getting all mashed into my fur so we’ve HAD no problem in that area.

Now for the last two day (I’ve been diapered almost 24 hours a day I haven’t made any cecals, not one, nothing!!What is with that? Has anybun ever heard of such a thing? Is this possible? What does it mean? Mamma has been freaking out and threatening to try and diaper Gracie and make me eat hers!! Now this is wrong on so many level, firstly I do NOT want to eat her left overs! That is so gross thank you!! and besides I’m not sure if Mamma could live to tell the tale, it would be like trying to diaper Freddy Kruger! Slice and dice would be an understatement. and then I don’t think she could diaper Puds, could you image trying to diaper a bowling ball and it staying on!

My ordinary pellet poops seem fine, last nights diaper was kind of low on them Mamma thought but I pooped good all day just no cecals Cause Mamma was thinkin I could get cecals when I was in my house its been 4 days anyway maybe 5 since I haven’t gotten any casue Mamma was tossing the ones in the diaper thinking there was a lot more to come, but sadly no.

Now Mamma tried to google this and all she could find was buns with issues making too many and how its the diet too rich and not enough fiber. OK I don’t eat hay but I’m on the Fibreplex still so that’s fibre and pro and prebiotics. Since I started on that my regular poos have been looking so much better and I do make more of them and maybe less of the cecals, but this is ridiculous. There doesn’t seem to be any info out there about buns that don’t make cecals. I doubt my vet is gonna know anything about this, she referrs to Mamma in these kinds of matters seems Mamma is the crazy bunny lady. My surgical vet might, but I’m worried he won’t either. Mamma is thinking a motility agent and another appetite stimulant~ maybe but I don’t know my gut seems to be moving stuff through, it just not sorting it into the categories. Its been over a month now since I’ve been off my food.

I’d appreciate any info you buns might have for me. We are hopin to go to the vet a little forewarned as to what is going on. Daddy wondered if its the antibiotic, but Mamma had noticed that in the past I’d not eat as much of my cecals when I was on antibiotics so we saw more of them not less.

Any ideas ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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

I’m doing Good Today!!

Hi Bunny Buddies!

Well guess what…..I am still eating And my eyes have stopped darting!!!!! Yay! Mamma think I am steering straighter in my cart tonight too. I spent much of the day meditating in my corner with my stuffies and my crystals, but I have been eating as well. Mamma thinks I ate real good yesturday, today she is not as sure if I am eating as much, but I really did stuff my yap all day yesturday. The meds seem to ge going in without complicaiton so far so things are really looking up!! I see Dr Deb tomorrow so she’ll get a good look at my eyes to see if she can see any Nystygmus but Mamma can’t see me doing it today. I’m telling you this is a huge releif!! We don’t know if its the herb for dizziness doing it or the Panacur or the Metacam reducing some inflamation that may be causing this neurological symptom. Who cares I say!! I just think its great that we stopped it in it trackes!!      

 ~You Watch it E.C. Super Tink is gonna fight you til the bitter END!!!!!!! hehe sorry I’m feeling a little saucy today. I’d also like to THANK the anonymous SWEETIE who sponsored me some Nomies!! OMG what a sweet surprise that was today, Thank You Thank YOU!! and Smooch xoxo T