New ball arrived frozen - thawed back to life

[MarkS]

Nothing is dead until its warm and dead.

In the field we are using new techniques that actually put cardiac arrest patients into induced hypothermia and the results are shocking. The survival rate increases dramatically.

That's what happened to my nieces fiance. 20 year old kid, his heart stopped while playing ultimate frisbee with some friends. Nobody knew what the heck they were doing until the paramedics got there 20 minutes later so he had no CPR. They were able to get his heart going again, but he was in a coma. They airlifted him to Rochester Mayo and they cooled his core temperature down really far and left him that way for a while. Then when they brought his temperature up again he came out of the coma. He's alive today which is pretty miraculous, unfortunately that's a awful long time for the brain to be without oxygen and he suffered substantial brain damage. He'll have to be on 24 hour care for the rest of his life so in retrospect I'm not sure it was a kindness to bring him back. But it was pretty amazing at the time.

[_Venom_]

I've heard of someone's BP being ressurected too

[Oroborous]

The same exact thing happened to me in October when I ordered my 08 pastel. He was hard as a rock and colied in a ball. A couple hours under my mom's arm with a heat pad and he finally immerged from his coils. I was working at the time and was so relieved to hear he was okay...reptiles are incredible survivors.

[SGExotics]

Imagine if you defrosted a mouse and it started running around!

[mrshawt]

reptiles are incredible survivors.

Yet they will get a cold if their ambient temp falls below 70.

Still though, amazing stories from everyone.

[hawaiianice99]

wow crazy stories, i wonder if there are any stories of people who left their reptiles in their cars when it was hot and they survived.

[pavlovk1025]

My burm that I used to have came back to life like that. When I was stationed in Monterey I met some Air Force dude that had a burm, and seeing as how I just bought a corn snake I figured we could chat. Turns out he got mad when it bit him so he threw it outside the window. Now this was January in Monterey CA so it got to about 36 that night. I was at his house the day after he threw her out the window and I was in shock so I asked where it was and he pointed outside to this 6ft burm on its back stretched out and lifeless. I brought it inside and stuck it in a luke warm bath and within minutes this beautiful burm came back to life and started cruising, and stopped to give me a quick hiss. I took her and the whole setup off his hands immediately and took her home. Week later she had an RI, went to the vet and cured her real quick. She lived with me till she hit 8ft and we were having a baby. Amazing creatures, snakes are.

[Kaorte]

I beleive your snake is a master at "playing dead"

Great story, that is amazing! I would have never guessed that this is relatively common D:

[AndrewGeibel]

I had heard a story like that with a BP and someone's power going out while on a vacation. I discounted it based on the reputation of the person for telling tall tales but hey maybe it is possible.

[MarkS]

I beleive your snake is a master at "playing dead"

Great story, that is amazing! I would have never guessed that this is relatively common D:

well, I doubt that it's 'common' and I would imagine that the longer they're in a torpid state, the more chance they have of never coming around again. But I think for short periods of time they can survive colder temps then are commonly believed. It would be interesting to know how cold they actually were, I doubt that actual freezing temperatures where ice crystals would form were involved .