A Bug's Life

Revel had been unwell for the last few days. The rescue centre gave her that name when she came in after the chocolates, where "you never know what you're going to get inside" - on that first day it was a peanut in each cheek pouch. On Wednesday it was a boil which they lanced; she perked up a lot overnight and came home on Thursday with delicious banana flavoured antibiotics. For a brief moment I thought that vetinary science had given the 2-year old hamster another 6 months on the clock, but by the next day we were back at the vet. Probably heart failure from the anaesthetic, but they felt another mass in her abdomen. Maybe it was a peanut. Go out as you came in, little hamster.