Lets start at the Easter holiday...
As you may know, I'm a full time college student, studying Double A-Level Health and Social Care, A-Level English Language and retaking my Maths GCSE. I spent my whole Easter holiday working, with only four days off out of all fifteen. During those four days I did the minimal amount of work that I could have got away with doing and boy do I regret it now. My deadline for all my coursework is now this Friday and I have not done enough.
Because I realised this quite early, and that I'm having trouble with Anatomy and Physiology I don't think I'm going to be able to get into university this year. I therefore went and had a look around for some distance learning courses at open colleges etc. to see if there were any courses that could help me get into university. I found a few courses but none of them are nationally recognised so there would be no point in spending all that money to do them because they wouldn't be recognised by UCAS :(.
The Tuesday after I went back to college I had my university interview at Chichester university, my first choice uni. I'm still trying my hardest with university to get in this year, just in case I get the grades but I wasn't too optimistic about this interview. They asked me questions I couldn't answer where I literally just went "er...um...I dunno..". However, I found out two days later I had a conditional offer of 240 UCAS points and my maths GCSE! Woo!
Other than that up until the 24th nothing has really happened, and within those four days it seems like EVERYTHING has happened. On the 24th I was sat being all upset because I was worried about university, so I was looking for courses everywhere. I had looked at adult learning courses in my closest colleges but I wasn't very excited about them because no where seemed to do any I liked the sound of. Then at around 6:30pm I found a course at a college I hadn't found before. It's an access course for health and social care, which will help me to go to university! For one day and one evening a week I can do this course for free! It was so exciting, and at 7:00pm there was an open evening for it down at the college so me and my dad hurried down there, it was amazing.
Then we got home, and I got my bunny in from the garden. He's the most excitable, bouncy, crazy bunny you will ever meet, honestly! He also lives up to his name - Trouble. However, when we got him in and stuff he was just flopping, not laying down, flopping. He didn't get up when we came in the room like usual, he wasn't eating, drinking or communicating with us like usual. We decided to just wait until the morning to see whether he got better overnight, but if anything he got much worse. We booked an emergency appointment as soon as the vets opened, and we took him round first thing. The vet was very rude to us, I got the impression she didn't believe us that he wasn't himself because she couldn't find anything physically wrong with him. I'd just like to add that all she did was check his temperature and listen to his breathing! Because we had said he wasn't eating or drinking she said to keep him in throughout the day and that they'll give us a call at around 2. Another thing I didn't like about this vet was that previously when Trouble had been brought in to get his nails trimmed he panicked so they had to give him a double appointment and do it on the floor, and that went on his file for future reference, but other than that he's fine at the vets. As soon as we walked in she was like "keep him in the box because we know what he's like!" which I thought was a bit rude, but then I opened the top of the carrier box just to give him a stroke, he wasn't going to jump out - he was flopping all over the place! - but she shut the lid and was like "just keep it closed!". When they decided to keep him in she carried him away straight away and didn't let me say goodbye or anything and at this point I thought he was going to die, I was crushed :(. At about 2:30 they phoned us to let us know that "he was fine, there's nothing wrong with him except him being off his appetite so you will need to syringe feed him liquid food and water, but he loves it so you won't have any problems with it". This is untrue, he had got worse and we could see that as soon as I took him out his carrier box :(. We booked him an appointment for the next day to make sure he was okay - which he wasn't - but luckily it was with the head vet and he's lovely.
I managed to feed him some syringe liquid food but he didn't like it, I had to hold him still and force him to eat it (without hurting him don't panic!) He did however have 250 ml of water from the syringe without me having to force him. This, however, came to our attention the next morning. He hadn't had a wee in around 16 hours. This was worrying but we were going to wait until the appointment in the evening to take him in. I had him with me all day, snuggling and sleeping, which usually we wouldn't be able to keep him still for 5 minutes, let alone all day. When we took him in the vet read through the list of problems we had found with Trouble, which the previous vet didn't do even though we had the list on the table then too! The vet could also recognise that he wasn't himself. He diagnosed him with a failed digestive system. This can be caused by anything, if anything upsets him (this could be the weather, something he eats etc.) he could stop eating. This means that the bad bacteria can take over in their digestive system and eat away at the good bacteria. This means that all the liquid we'd given him had been staying in his intestines. To solve this they needed to flush his system out completely so he had to have a drip put in. When I asked the vet whether he would be all better after this he said "well that's what we're hoping for, but we can't guarantee he'll survive it because he's become so weak" and I burst into tears.
Around 24 hours later we got a call saying that Trouble was better and that we could go and get him! Yay!
He's now 100% better, you wouldn't know he'd ever been ill except if you saw his ear as it's been shaven and looks a bit red where the drip was put in.
As it's currently rabbit's mating season at the moment, it's also Troubles first mating season as an adult AND he know's what it's like to have rabbit company because we used to have another bunny called Bobby, but he died in September, we decided it could have been that Trouble was lonely that put him off his food, so we have bought another bunny.
We don't actually have him yet as he had a respiratory problem, although he's been reserved for us. He's a little ginger dwarf lop, 14 weeks old. I haven't named him yet so
any suggestions are welcomed
as I have no idea what to call him. I would like to do something relating to his ginger fur.
P.S. Meet Trouble!
I managed to feed him some syringe liquid food but he didn't like it, I had to hold him still and force him to eat it (without hurting him don't panic!) He did however have 250 ml of water from the syringe without me having to force him. This, however, came to our attention the next morning. He hadn't had a wee in around 16 hours. This was worrying but we were going to wait until the appointment in the evening to take him in. I had him with me all day, snuggling and sleeping, which usually we wouldn't be able to keep him still for 5 minutes, let alone all day. When we took him in the vet read through the list of problems we had found with Trouble, which the previous vet didn't do even though we had the list on the table then too! The vet could also recognise that he wasn't himself. He diagnosed him with a failed digestive system. This can be caused by anything, if anything upsets him (this could be the weather, something he eats etc.) he could stop eating. This means that the bad bacteria can take over in their digestive system and eat away at the good bacteria. This means that all the liquid we'd given him had been staying in his intestines. To solve this they needed to flush his system out completely so he had to have a drip put in. When I asked the vet whether he would be all better after this he said "well that's what we're hoping for, but we can't guarantee he'll survive it because he's become so weak" and I burst into tears.
Around 24 hours later we got a call saying that Trouble was better and that we could go and get him! Yay!
He's now 100% better, you wouldn't know he'd ever been ill except if you saw his ear as it's been shaven and looks a bit red where the drip was put in.
As it's currently rabbit's mating season at the moment, it's also Troubles first mating season as an adult AND he know's what it's like to have rabbit company because we used to have another bunny called Bobby, but he died in September, we decided it could have been that Trouble was lonely that put him off his food, so we have bought another bunny.
We don't actually have him yet as he had a respiratory problem, although he's been reserved for us. He's a little ginger dwarf lop, 14 weeks old. I haven't named him yet so
any suggestions are welcomed
as I have no idea what to call him. I would like to do something relating to his ginger fur.
P.S. Meet Trouble!
