Hi there everyone. I havent posted in a while. Yesterday I had an accident. While I was cleaning my BP's viv which was placed at around 4.5 ft height, I took the BP out and placed her on an upside down plastic tub. I didnt realize that she was moving towards the edge of the upside down hide and she tipped the hide over along with herself. She fell with no sound on her belly. I did a physical inspection multiple times and ran my fingers along every part on her body and the spine over and over. Nothing was off. She kinda balled up on my hand probably stressed but I put her back on her viv and she did her nightly cruising and it was like just another tuesday for her.
Regardless, I called a famoues herp vet and he said even if he performs an x-ray and hypothetically finds broken bones, it is not like he can put a caste or perform a surgery. The most he can do IF he does find broken bones is to give "bone medicine". I was skeptical the moment i heard that and thought he is just gonna charge me for the x-ray and give me supplements. I called breeders I know here, and they said just wait and see because nothing can be done and they have never heard of such "bone medicine" and assumed it is going to be just supplements. Honestly, money is not the issue, the snake is my first ever and her set up alone is more expensive than her. But if a trip to the vet with all the stress and vibrations impacting her body that just fell only for the doctor to say he cant do anything anyway seems unwise.
She is still fine today, but I do need advice. She is around 650 grams, fell from 4.5 ft to floor tile on her belly, no carpet.
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