Please note: I'm bringing her to the vet tomorrow, but I'd love to just hear any opinions about what might be going on with her until then. Will update tomorrow night with vet's diagnosis. Here's my story.

My friend and I had been enthusiastically talking about breeding ball pythons last year, though neither of us had snakes before. We wanted to get our foot into the door with our first babies and to start understanding the husbandry, so at the beginning of the year (mid January) we hunted down a couple ball pythons off of Craigslist. My male pinstripe's previous owner was a vet tech who had him properly sexed, a tiny healthy 180 gram baby. My friend's female normal, however, came from a gentlemen who very obviously did not take care of her properly, did not consistently feed her, and to top it off she had a huge UTH burn on her belly. She weighed in at 202 grams, but he couldn't tell us how old she was, so we just assumed she was a baby as well. Regardless, she was cheap, came with a ton of reptile supplies as an incentive, so my friend bit the bullet. I didn't see much of her snake after that, just some pics of the burns. My friend told me her UTH burns were healing up, and that she was eating consistently every week.

Six months later (today) my friend asked me if I could go over to her place and grab her snake. She's currently out of town at a convention, wont be back until Sunday night. She was worried about the possibility of her snake having scale rot and that she needed to be fed. Saying I was shocked at the condition of the snake is an understatement, I'm kind of mad. Once I brought her home, I promptly weighed her. She's 224 grams, only 22 more than her initial weigh six months ago. In comparison my male is now 832 grams. Even though I have trouble with humidity sometimes, my snake has never given me any issues, so I'm having a REALLY hard time wrapping my head around whats happening with her snake. My friend takes really good care of her animals, so I don't wanna call her out on neglect or anything, so I'm assuming the lack of weight gain is some kind of internal issue. She tried to set up a humid hide recently with wet moss in a plastic container, she said she was trying to keep better humidity (shes still using an UTH), and I feel like that's what caused the scale rot, some kind of bacterial infection along her UTH burn area.

As well as the scale rot, burn scars, and no weight gain, her eyes also look bugged out. I'm thinking she has layers of stuck eye caps, though I'm not really sure, I was trying to gently rub them off but nothings budging. I gave her a warm bath and took a good bit of her stuck recent shed off. My friend also told me she has not eaten for the last two weeks and regurgitated her last meal, so I tried to feed her with an adult mouse but she showed no interest. After her bath I noticed there was a plug of poop in her vent. I gently squeezed it out and she immediately released liquid evil. It smelled like death. Her vent was kind of open, red, and was swollen for a little while, but looks better now. Her anal spurs look like they've been breaded and deep fried for lack of a better description.

I told her I'm taking her to a vet tomorrow. Any ideas with whats going on? Anything I should check? Uploading pics soon.