Showing posts with label bunny mini stroke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bunny mini stroke. Show all posts

Thursday, August 6, 2020

Yay--Eat the food!

Honestly, I don't care that she's messily eating a scoop full of oats, just so long as she's eating something on her own.

We think River had another mini-stroke in late June because she seemed to forget how to eat by herself.  She would show interest in food, but didn't seem to be able to pick one item out and manipulate it into her mouth or figure out what came next when she did (the food would just fall back out).  The last month has been a parade of force feedings every few hours and pain meds until just this past week.
She was deemed too frail for additional testing, so this was the best we could do for her since she is still showing an interest in life and still trying to interact with her surroundings.
She's a scrappy little munchkin and is ever so slowly gaining weight again!
Her diet varies by the day and whims of whatever she's currently hungry for, but basil, mint, spinach, parsley, salad mix, carrots, dried cranberry, oats, and chopped up pellets are her bunny buffet options.  So far, hay remains a difficult food for her to figure out how to eat, but we're optimistic that she'll get there.