Love you, I’ll be here
I will never disappear
Said forever, I swear
So I will be there
Tyler Shaw – Love You Still
Luna's Amazon Birthday Wishlist
It's Luna (my bunny)'s 1st Birthday next week, but I wanted to do something special now... So, I thought I’d turn over to you and asked you all to send in your bunny-related questions! I had vowed to
answer all of them but having such a big audience now; I maybe shouldn’t have
said that! So, I’ve had to pick my favourites – which was so difficult because
I honestly loved them all…
Why a rabbit?
And what made you pick Luna?
So, when I was little I had two
rabbits – Happy and Thumper – and when they had babies myself and my family
made the mistake of handling them so the Mum killed them (something which is
quite well known in rabbits).
This memory led professionals to believe that when I started to hallucinate
rabbits years later, that was the influence.
After a lengthy (two and a half
years) psychiatric hospital admission and medication, the hallucinations
stopped for some time and when they came back in 2017, I was so terrified that
if I told someone I’d be put back in hospital; but I knew that I needed to talk
about it in order to get help. So, my Mum and I were in Pets At Home, and I had
this unexpected and overwhelming idea to hold one of their rabbits. My thought
behind it was that perhaps in feeling a very real bunny, in having their fur
against my skin and feeling their heartbeat, maybe I’d feel some sort of
courage and comfort that would leave me able to get help for the hallucinations
return.