I'm 99% sure what caused the RI... The temps and humidity were all over the place in my snake room for a few days when it got down 0 - 7 degrees here last week. Like I mentioned, I discovered some really bad drafts in the room, which I fixed and everything has been perfect again. I was almost anticipating RI issues to start surfacing because of it. The sides and backs of my racks are enclosed and the temps in the tubs were alright, but I had to keep opening and closing the heater vent in the room to keep it warm enough, because my oil space heater wasn't keeping up. So, opening and closing the heater vent also kept causing the humidity to go up and down and I kept misting all of the tubs down once or twice a day to make sure the tubs themselves had plenty of humidity. In my opinion, it's pretty obvious what caused this and i'll be really lucky to not have other snakes ending up with RIs...

As far as treating in a vapor chamber with Vicks and Eucalyptus, all I know is there are A LOT of people using that method of treatment that are saying it works. Perhaps it does only help the symptoms, but that is my goal right now until I can get her to the vet... I am going to call tomorrow and maybe he will be nice and just prescribe me some antibiotics for her until I can get her in there...