In need of happy thoughts and good vibes for Tex

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Originally Posted by melcvt00

Is it possible for snakes to become diabetic????

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The answer is yes. Rare as a three legged buffalo nickel, but yes. It was dismissed in Tex's case though. If she were diabetic there would have been glucose present in the urates that I brought in, and the ones the vets were able to collect. At least we were able to cross that off the list.

Thanks to all that have posted on this thread. This community is pretty awesome.

Dave

I wish the best of luck to both you and Tex, hope you and your vets figure out what's wrong with her.

Could it be some kind of bacteria that got into her through a feeder?

A contaminated feeder is a possibility that we are looking at. There's the spot on her lung to deal with too....

Dave

Sending good vibes to your girl!

Oh no :( I'm so sorry to see this. I have admired her so much and even have one of the babies from her most recent clutch. I really hope they figure out what is going on.

so sorry to hear that Dave, but i'm sending tons of positive energy over your way.


also me and my peeps just made Tex a post-it card.
http://i.imgur.com/GlNnREkl.jpg


we're sending happy thoughts from Seattle to Texas.
http://i.imgur.com/NIRYVrtl.jpg


stay strong girl!

You know when people write LOL just because they think they should....this is not one of those times. You and your peeps cracked me up. I needed that. Thanks, Ax.

Now for the update:

Tex is still hanging in there. I speak to the vets, who actually call me, a couple times a day. As of this morning she was described as being feisty. She's gaining strength back which is great. Not sure if it's the antibiotics, the fluid treatments, or both. Another blood chem panel is scheduled for today so hopefully it'll show lower Sodium and Chloride levels as well as some higher and lowers counts of various things that need to happen. The head of the exotics department really has no idea how she survived the initial spike of the salts in her blood. They were off the chart bad...literally off the chart. To bring the weird back into it, she showed now outward signs of dehydration, but obviously she was. The vets words, not mine. So even though the prognostic indicators were horribly bad at the onset of veterinary care, things are looking up. I'll know more after the next round of tests.

In the mean time, if anyone wants a kidney let me know. I have an extra. Yeah, I'm kidding, but only slightly. I'm happy to do this for her, and I'd do it for any of my animals, but this stuff is not cheap. On the bright side, the department is looking into grants to cover some of the costs. We're in uncharted territory for some of this and verging on experimental medicine. The last study goes back to the mid 1990s on BP blood chemistry. The phrase "if she were a dog or cat, it would mean..." is common. I really don't care. Whatever they are doing seems to be working.

Thanks for all the support....you folks have been great.

Dave

I'm glad to hear its possible to treat mystery illness's in snakes, I do hope everything goes well. That said if you your pet manage to provide some useful scientific data then that is something deserving of respect and more than most achieve.

Aww...I hope Tex makes a full recovery. But think of it this way....these "uncharted territories" your entering into, will now have some documented data that could help others in tbe future.

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Good luck with Tex, this must be very stressful.

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