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Update on our sick baby
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[QUOTE="Zeus Crawford, post: 2028346, member: 118086"] Wanted to give an update on our Zeusy-girl! Quick recap- we beloved Zeus to be a male, but end of June, SHE started passing what we determined to be eggs. She struggled hard for several days to pass them, yea we gave her a dig box (play sand and eco fiber), and she got the substrate in her eyes and got an infection. We finally found a vet an hour away, they determined severe calcium deficiency (again, no clue she needed a calcium boost when gravid, bc we thought we had a he), they gave her a calcium and a vitamin injection and antibiotic eye drops. She started to get worse instead of better, so we went back to the vet. They sedated her to take blood, clean her eyes, more X-rays, and a full body exam. She had a bound egg that caused the infection. Vet put her on meloxicam and an antibiotic injection. Pathology suggested that we put her down because she was too sick for surgery and the infection was too bad, actually said she was septic and her kidneys were failing. Well…after so much love, following all vet directions, annd some husbandry improvements—Our Zeusy-girl is showing so much improvement!! We have two more antibiotic injections left (Saturday and Tuesday), we’re all done with the eye drops, and she’s up to 4mL twice a day of Repashy beardie buffet via syringe (2 parts water to 1 part powder). Come Monday, we are allowed to start offering solid food again! 🙏🤞 We’re going on six weeks with our sick baby now, but it’s totally looking like she’s headed for a full recovery! She has always loved her baths, but since laying her first egg in June, she just layed there in the water, didn’t drink, didn’t move around much, nothing. Today, she actually went for a whole swim and was rewarded with a big healthy poop!!! We put her in the shallow end and she always heads to the deeper side for a swim, and then comes back to the shallow. The attached video is her third swim during this bath I could only upload 5 seconds. It was SO GOOD to see her back to herself! Keep rooting for her!!!! 🙏🌈 [/QUOTE]
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