Hello friends,,
My BRB Zen has had a strange happening with her head for quite some time. Her DOB is July of 2017 and she has been in my care her whole life.
In March of 2019 I took her to Como Park Animal Hospital to investigate a swelling above her right eye. The lump was firm but not hard. It didn't appear to cause her discomfort to touch. She had stopped eating for me and went about 6 months without food before I took her to Como. The vet didn't have any suspicions and gave some tips on encouraging her eating habits. In 4th quarter of 2019 I upgraded her from a Rubbermaid tub to an animal plastics enclosure with a radiant heat panel connected to a VE-300X2 and designed and 3d printed a diffuser valve for a fogger on a raspberry pi that detects the ambient humidity, temp and air flow, automatically adjusting to maintain 80% humidity and 85 freedom degrees. Her appetite soared and she has grown significantly over the course of the year. However in January of 2020 the lump on her head "popped" and deflated! It left behind a small cavernous hole you could look down into and observe pink soft tissue. Images supplied post-deflate are April 4 2020, after a few sheddings, showing a scab of sorts. Newest images are taken today, showing a significantly deformed scale instead of scab. Photos of bump are taken the day of her vet visit.
Is there anyone out there that can explain what happened? Will her scale be warped forever?
Thank you very much for looking.
(I can't seem to get the first two links to format correctly to show the images, if anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong I'd like that very much)
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