Update on Alexis

Thanks everyone for your patience...busy day caring for sick bunnies. Anyway, good news on Alexis. Not *great* news, but definitely not the news we dreaded to hear. She has a broken vertebrae in her lower back. Surgery would not correct this, apparently that surgery would have needed to be done within hours of the injury. The good news though is that the vet believes she might actually recover without surgery. (I actually have a bunny who had a similar injury, though obviously not from being hit by a car, and she has in fact regained most of her mobility....)

I don't have many details yet & I apologize for that, but basically it sounds like she will never be 100% again, but may gradually regain the use of her hind end. She will definitely have to have her tail amputated and may remain incontinent. The woman who came to the shelter to meet Alexis yesterday, who bathed her and donated to her care, is a volunteer for GRIN. She has talked the Board of Directors of GRIN into taking Alexis into their care. I'm still awaiting details, but it sounds like she will be going to their vet tomorrow for possible tail amputation and I'm not sure what else.

I will post more as I know it, and GRIN will have to take over once she's in their care. Thanks so much to everyone who donated, crossposted, and sent lots of good thoughts. She wouldn't still be alive, with a hopefully bright future, without *all* of your help!

Dawn