I posted this in Raph's old thread but thought I'd put it here too:
I do believe Raph was watching over Yofi recently. Yof's feet were a mess last weekend; they had developed sore hocks and then became swollen...they were soft with two large masses in the center of each foot. I've seen infection in rabbits before, and this definitely looked like infection. I'd been treating them twice a day for almost two weeks but his feet just seemed to be getting worse, and I couldn't get him in to see the vet until Monday evening. So on the weekend I did a lot of praying, and Raph suddenly appeared in my mind...so I prayed to him too, to help Yofi's feet.
Monday morning I treated Yof's feet before going to work and thought, 'They seem different somehow'. Monday evening took him to the vets, and I was shocked. The vet examined him and said, 'There's no infection here...it's just irritation and inflamation. If there had been infection his feet would have been swollen and soft to the touch; you would have been able to leave an 'impression' in the area had you pushed on it'. Well, that's exactly how Yofi's feet
had appeared...until Monday. But at the vet's the area was firm and raised, like callouses, no softness whatsoever, no cracks and bleeding as there had been a couple of days prior.
Was it the power of prayer (mine as well as others here)? Or the continued treatment that caused the sudden change? Or...did Raph somehow have something to do with it?
I think it was probably all three...but I somehow suspect Raph had a huge paw in it.
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Honestly, if you believe in the power of prayer as I do, I'd say this was a bit of a mini-miracle. The last photo I took of Yofi's feet look bad, but that's nothing compared to how they were a few days before we got to the vet's. The swelling was enormous, and the 'soft, squishy spots' on each foot had begun in the center of each (with a ring of white, dead-looking skin where it began on one of the feet). The swelling had started to extend to the side of one foot as well; the skin was blood red and there had been some bleeding. To have it all disappear so suddenly like that - Sunday night it was still red and grossly swollen, and Yof was lethargic - was amazing.
And it looks like I don't have to worry too much about his antics either. Yofi's no longer lethargic, his appetite is once again huge, but other than the evening when we came home from the vet's and he transformed into The Bunnygizer, he's settled down. I've been treating his feet twice daily for a few weeks now, and when I do, he rests on my lap on the sofa while I treat them. Well, now he seems to have declared the sofa as officially his. Every evening now after I do his feet, Yofi runs away in a feigned snit, then returns five minutes later. And he spends the rest of the evening stretched out on the sofa, lazing about and falling asleep, waking up and grooming, then back to dreams again. He literally stays there for hours, and last evening quietly made his way over to me and snuggled next to my body. Anna is now forced to come into the living room (and thus has to cross the dreaded land of hardwood flooring) to see him. And I thought The Boy was spoiled before...:rollseyes
I'll try and post some pics of His Hareness tonight when I'm home.
LOL wabbitdad...Yofi would definitely love your suggestion! A rabbit spa? He'd be in bunnay heaven...especially if it came with complimentary dogs to traumatize. Throw in a cat or two as well, and he'd never leave!
