Let me give an update on our pet rabbit before moving on to the next big story, which would be Anthrohio. This will not be a merry post, but it isn't a grim one either.
Our pet rabbit had been moving more stiffly, especially since Christmas. We started giving him some painkiller medicine, which he loves, and some ``cold laser'' treatment, which he's come to accept. We're not positive that the ``cold laser'' --- shining a laser on his skin in the hopes of stimulating capillary action somehow --- is doing anything, but we do suspect the attention and the weekly trip is good for him.
In March we got an X-ray and learned his left hindleg had a much larger calcified deposit than we imagined. We knew he was getting arthritic but not how badly he was getting. His right hindleg had ... something ... on his knee. The vet suspected it might be bone cancer. To tell we'd have to wait two months and get new X-rays. If it was bone cancer, it would have grown dramatically. If not, then it would still be a shadowy weird shape.
Last weekend, when our rabbit was with 
bunny_hugger's parents --- we were taking a short trip to see my sister and her family, another story to come here --- he spent the weekend flopped out in their kitchen, not moving. Barely eating. He's always depressed when he's first away, but this was much more severe than usual. We followed reports of how he was and grew worried. I had gotten used to the idea this would probably be his last year. That this might be his last month I was not.
He perked up when we got back to him. He got much more alert. What he did not get was mobile. He could barely stand up and would rather not. We could stand him up but he would be wobbly and tip over. I was ready for the worst, that he's got bone cancer and it had grown to the point his right leg had given out altogether.
Based on the new X-ray, there is not evidence that he's got bone cancer. We don't have to make hard decisions about that.
We are trying him on a new joint medication. We hope that'll help his legs. We have also been trying him on some nutritional supplement, to help him regain some needed weight. His mood is still excellent, and he's been getting a bit closer to ambulatory again. He's still in rough shape.
We had left June free, as we never quite worked out a plan to do an amusement park trip. And that's fine now, as we would not want to put him to the stress of another separation from us. We do have some potentially stressful affairs planned, though. In July we plan to go with bunny_hugger's parents up to the Traverse City area. We had always planned to bring him along and we expect to bring him still. But we also have reservations to go to a pinball event in Pittsburgh, and that we are going to have to board him with bunny_hugger's parents. We hope.
Trivia: Louis Pasteur and Marie Laurent married on 29 May 1849, and had a honeymoon in Baden. Source: Louis Pasteur, Patrice Debré, Translated by Elborg Forster.
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