28/07/2025
‼️Beware as this post does contain confrontational photos including blood‼️
As some of you may remember from a previous post, Miss Poppy had an episode of gut stasis about 2 weeks ago.
She was taken straight to UPV and underwent treatment and a few nights hospital stay.
We finally took our girl home after her little stay in hospital, this is when we noticed she wasn’t her usual self.
Not eating much and was also showing some symptoms of EC (to which she’s had previously)
One night whilst I was giving her medication, I noticed she developed a significant lump under her jaw area.
Yet again we found ourselves back at UPV.
Poppy was taken straight to the back and upon investigation, she had developed a VERY significant abscess. (this grew quickly as she was only there a few days prior)
The team gave Poppy Lidocaine and lanced the abscess and what came out was next level! The vets were astonished to say the least.
Poppy was anaemic, dehydrated and had lost weight her
Her PCV was 13
Keep in mind we were due to go overseas not long after this all happened.
We had to make the decision and leave Poppy at the vets, for the duration of our trip as she was clearly a very sick bunny, who required way more specialised care.
We paid $700 and said our possible last goodbyes.
During our time away she was being an incredibly resilient lady.
She however did have a few episodes where, she would be taken off fluids and have to go back on due to dehydration.
She also had periods where she gained weight then dropped again.
We got a culture done from the abscess and it came back, that she had a Pseudomonas infection. (which can be quite a nasty bacteria)
We then had to wait a few days, to see which new antibiotic she could go on.
Poppy will also require a CT scan (roughly $600) to try and get to the bottom of this entire ordeal and find out where this abscess developed from.
We will finally be reunited with Poppy and her husbun Whisky tomorrow.
Who has been with her at the vets whilst we’ve been away.
Even though he was naughty and stole Poppy’s food, and had to have the baby gate put up…
I’ve added a Gofund me to this post as so far my vet bill is $4,747.75 and still growing with needing a CT scan.
I know times are tough all round and I don’t expect anything, but if possible I would be very grateful. 🥹❤️
I will hopefully be able to update this post with way more information, when we collect the kiddies tomorrow. and when we get the CT scan done possibly more again.
https://gofund.me/51332374.
Thank you to UPV - Prospect for looking after my girl so well and communicating with me the entire time I was overseas.
As you can all imagine it was pretty difficult that I couldn’t be there for her, but I knew she was in the best possible hands. ❤️
