I'm happy to report that Bennett continues to be recovering form his bout with infection. We still need to finish the rounds of his three antibiotics to make sure we really kill this bug but he seems to be doing much better. He's picked up on eating more greens, still not too hot on the pellets and lots of hay. The one thing he hasn't really started doing is drinking, so we're still doing the sub q fluids for him. Actually, today I have held off on giving him the fluids in hope that he'd be thirsty and drink something but I don't know if that is going to work. If he hasn't had anything to drink in my presence before we go to bed tonight, he's getting the fluids. Laurie took some cute pictures lately of him being sick. I wrap him up into a bunny burrito to put the nose drops in, so he can't kick or scratch me and I can use my hands to do the drops and not to fight him. He looks like a little baby in my arms (albeit a fuzzy one)!
This one, I took this morning. Ella has been very comforting to Bennett through this whole illness thing and what she's best at is being in solidarity with Bennett (you can practically hear her saying "these humans are only here to torture us, I'm with you buddy!") and being his bodyguard. Here's a pic of bodyguard Ella, she says no more medicine for Bennett or I get bunny wrath.
ETA: Bennett sure showed me. Not too long after I posted, Mr. Bennett moseyed on over to the water bottle and had a long drink of water! He is officially off of the fluids and had quite the appetite for pellets and hay and greens tonight, not to mention the frequent long trips to the water bottle. I really do think that this crisis is finally over :) Yay for healthy Bennett and for me not having to stab him with the 18 gauge needle for fluids!
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