Sorry for a long post..
So Saturday morning I noticed pickle looked like she was gaping oddly. I watched her close and she gasped for air so freaked out and called her vet. They had me rush her right in. Pickle was just about 11 months, 40 gal breeder Arcadia 12% uvb basking was about 108 hot 85 cool about 75 with a hide. Not too big on her greens still but she would eat a few bite of it everyday. Dubia, BSFL and she did love her supers and I did spoil her with them maybe too much. So we got her to the vet she said she didn’t see any signs of respiratory issues and did an X-ray. When she came back out she said she had a breathing episode and her heart rate dropped from 100 to 50, they had her on oxygen and she was barley stable for about 2 hours. X-rays showed nothing wrong respiratory or gut wise they did say her heart looked a little enlarged but not anything to be concerned about. IStat blood work showed a low red cell count of 12 so she said internal bleeding (again nothing on X-ray) or in rare cases leukemia?! So after oxygen and not knowing what was wrong she lost brain function and we had to send her over the rainbow bridge. It’s killing me that she’s gone and I don’t even know why. She went through a small brumation late nov in and out for about 2 weeks and has been up active eating and doing good I’m just at a loss. I should have did an autopsy so I could know but I felt bad and checked no. She was my first dragon and also was super sick with coccidia last April and we got through it I thought I was gonna have her for years. Anyone else go through something similar? What are the chances she had leukemia? She was a bad buy from petsmart so didn’t come from the best place either. I want to make sure I didn’t do anything wrong or at least be able to learn from it bc I’d do anything for my babies
So Saturday morning I noticed pickle looked like she was gaping oddly. I watched her close and she gasped for air so freaked out and called her vet. They had me rush her right in. Pickle was just about 11 months, 40 gal breeder Arcadia 12% uvb basking was about 108 hot 85 cool about 75 with a hide. Not too big on her greens still but she would eat a few bite of it everyday. Dubia, BSFL and she did love her supers and I did spoil her with them maybe too much. So we got her to the vet she said she didn’t see any signs of respiratory issues and did an X-ray. When she came back out she said she had a breathing episode and her heart rate dropped from 100 to 50, they had her on oxygen and she was barley stable for about 2 hours. X-rays showed nothing wrong respiratory or gut wise they did say her heart looked a little enlarged but not anything to be concerned about. IStat blood work showed a low red cell count of 12 so she said internal bleeding (again nothing on X-ray) or in rare cases leukemia?! So after oxygen and not knowing what was wrong she lost brain function and we had to send her over the rainbow bridge. It’s killing me that she’s gone and I don’t even know why. She went through a small brumation late nov in and out for about 2 weeks and has been up active eating and doing good I’m just at a loss. I should have did an autopsy so I could know but I felt bad and checked no. She was my first dragon and also was super sick with coccidia last April and we got through it I thought I was gonna have her for years. Anyone else go through something similar? What are the chances she had leukemia? She was a bad buy from petsmart so didn’t come from the best place either. I want to make sure I didn’t do anything wrong or at least be able to learn from it bc I’d do anything for my babies