Beside ourselves, need help with this decision PLEASE.....

Guys I don't know who else to ask about this please give us your feedback.

An update to this thread:
https://www.rabbitsonline.net/threads/poor-sweet-6m-old-molly-has-glaucoma.93043/unread

The tl/dr, Poor sweet 6 month old Molly, a flemish giant we adopted from a family raising them for meat, needs her eye removed due to glaucoma. Since the last thread, she has been seen by an eye specialist who said it did NOT have to be removed, put her on new eye drops, all was well until this morning when she was being checked in for her spay surgery at another hospital. The brakes were put on when they did her eye pressure test, it's awful, the eye DOES have to be removed despite us doing everything we can and getting 3 different hospital opinions/treatments.

Here's our dilemma:
The eye specialist hospital I call them, who is a very popular New England area emergency/specialist hospital (Bulger) is insisting that it is dangerous to keep her under anesthetic for both the spay and the eye removal and want to do two separate surgeries. It would take too long and be life threatening. We're told 3 different vets there were consulted and all 3 agree. They quoted over $2,000 to accomplish both. The other hospital we were referred to, Tufts Medical Center, another major New England emergency/specialist hospital, said they can do both at the same time no problem, and it's half the price at $1,000.... but, they're a teaching hospital......

We don't know what to do. My husband just lost his job two days ago, we really don't have this kind of money to begin with especially right before the holidays. One hospital says its dangerous and wants to charge double, one says its fine and wants to charge half. The second hospital will be four hour drive round trip as well. We can't just nix the spay, as she's been humping her (fixed) bunny husband so much they're separated which makes them miserable, and when they do have their supervised play time, she now greets him with a squirt of pee (!!!), so not spaying her is not an option.

Does anyone have any feedback on this? What would you do???
Of course everyone I ask says to put her down. We love her!!!!

Thank you SO much in advance for your thoughts......

Has she been seen by the specialist again to actually confirm what this other vet said about the eye needing to be removed?

I agree with watermelons, trust in the specialist and see what they say first. If they do agree, would you be able to have the specialist remove the eye? That would be the best course of action, though potentially even more expensive... you could get the eye removed, which is more urgent, and save up for a spay later? Some vets will also offer payment plans so you don’t have to pay the whole op in one go? Might be worth asking about that as an option.

Am sorry to hear about your troubles. We had to have one of our cats eyes removed several years ago due to glaucoma from FIV. He adjusted great and was fine for many years. I know how expensive vet care can be. Would ask for the best vet advice you can get then go to whichever vet specialist you are most comfortable with. We have had to drive our pigeons over four hours each way to an avian specialistso understand how hard that the travel can be. Would ask the vet if you can pay them over time. I have had to do that. Hope your bunny is ok very soon.

That's a tough situation. Personally I'd go with the specialist's opinion. I can understand why you want to spay her now, but it seems like her eye is the more pressing issue, and technically she can survive without the spay surgery for a while (although it's not convenient of course for you) but not so much with the eye issue. Can you do something like Care Credit so that you can make payments? I've found that helpful in the past for emergency surgeries and things like that which have popped up for my pets. As much as you want to help her, not putting your family in a worse spot financially seems like it would be a high priority as well. We can only do what we can do. I hope you're able to work things out and that your bun gets better soon!

Thank you SO so much for the responses everyone it's really appreciated. I should have noted, that the day she was checked in for what was going to be a spay - the hospital that put the brakes on the spay due to the eye works very closely with the eye specialist hospital and they actually spoke with that specialist before they called the spay off.... so yes the specialist now agrees. So so sad on a 6 month old bunny.........

Interesting to note, something that I learned in case future readers don't know.... the glaucoma eye HAS to be a priority apparently because the anesthesia actually puts more pressure on the eye while they're under which can make it burst (!!). Hence why she couldn't have been spayed that day.

Initially we decided as some of you suggested to go with the specialist hospital even though it's more money (it's actually over $2k for the eye alone, another $600 to spay later there....) just because it made me feel better to have the best care as her health is our top priority. We scheduled it, it was a done deal.

However, this morning my regular vet was kind enough to return my call I made the night of this thread to ask his opinion. He suggested using Tufts (the less expensive but far away teaching hospital that can do both at once). He stated that really he thinks the specialist hospital just don't have both a spay surgeon and an eye surgeon available on the same day, that's the real reason they didn't want to do both at once, and that Tufts being a larger facility can get both done at once which would be actually better for her to put her under only once.

So, we are going to schedule her there.
Just in time too, she's so hormonal she actually destroyed her temporary housing over night which she's been in for a while now just to get to her bunny hubby across the room, not safe when you have a whippet puppy in the household who's just in the process of learning bunnies are not food. doh. Thankfully everyone's ok but ms. hormones sure needs a good fixin' LOLLLL

So that's where it stands, if anyone disagrees with keeping her under for both pls LMK
Thanks for all the support guys again <3

Personally... i would probably opt for the teaching hospital as well. You likely have someone very experienced right there every step of the way. They dont let stuff happen with no supervision. She will be in good hands.