Mood: Worried, stressed, but a bit better now.

Bunny drama.

To everyone who's been text messaging and FBing me regarding my somewhat cryptic tweets last night: Toby is doing okay now. Yesterday morning and early evening, he was fine; eating and running around and being completely silly like usual. Then in about a span of two or three hours he did a complete 180. I went to give him his dinner just after 9pm and all of a sudden he refused to move at all, he wouldn't even touch his food or react at the sight of his favorite pineapple juice or raisin treats. He seemed to just lay in a corner of his room and only moved every couple minutes to change position as if he couldn't get comfortable, and I found what looked like watery stools on the carpet.

Two different bunny health signs signaling immediate vet attention, so at 10pm I rushed him over to the Emergency Vet Clinic downtown. There was a lot of waiting when we got there, but eventually a doctor came to do a physical inspection. She noted that his temperature was too low and did a lot of feeling and prodding of his tummy which was a bit descended but she said was hard to tell what it was filled with, whether it was a blockage or food from earlier that day still. She originally wanted to keep him overnight to give him IV fluids, but came back after a while after consulting another vet and they decided that since: a) they weren't extremely versed with rabbits, and b) having him stay overnight and being handled repeatedly by strangers would have put too much extra dangerous stress on him, she said the best bet was to take him home for the night to watch him and take him to his regular vet in the morning if he hadn't improved.

We got home just after 1am, I put a blanket on him to keep him warm (he squirmed out of it after ten minutes or so), scrubbed his litterbox clean, and put out some fresh veggies for him to eat during the night if he wanted; then stayed up till 3 buried in rabbit books and web health guides. When I woke up this morning he was in the exact same position he was when I left him last night, with no solid feces or eaten food, and his ears were really cold. For the first time I thought I heard the bunny teeth-grid sound of pain. I took him down to Tudor Glen as soon as they opened and he's been there all of today. I finally got an update from the vet office after lunch saying they'd managed to raise his temperature by putting him on a warming pad, and were force feeding him a couple times through the day with a syringe, though thankfully he was finally nibbling some hay on his own. He may be able to come home tonight.

I don't know how parents go through this sort of thing with human born-from-your-flesh offspring. I spent the entire morning trying to distract myself with whatever I could do to keep from being a anxiety-ridden, crying wreck waiting for the vet to call. I cleaned Toby's room from top to bottom and lugged away all of the extra rugs we were using on top of the regular carpet because I don't know whether or not he was ingesting the frayed edges of them or what. My sister phoned to check up on the situation and out of no where I just started sobbing into the phone, then a co-worker phoned with work-related questions and at the mention of how Toby was doing I embarrassingly started sobbing again. I have been completely useless today, and I realize there are people who will never understand the emotional attachment I have to Toby or why someone can get so upset over an animal, but I also know the other people who can relate to the feeling that they're not so much pets as they're members of your family. Much love out to Chelle who came over during her lunch to provide sisterly comfort even after I got the positive report back from the vet~

I hope to talk to the doctor when I go to pick him up and see if she knows exactly what happened. It seems like GI stasis, but I don't believe the watery stools and body temperature drop are symptoms of that so I'm not sure what the problem really was. I hope he's back to his chipper self when I bring him home. *Love*