Vet visit today! She was a champ. Vet said it could be a lot of things - from just skin pulling away from the lower tissue, to infection, to virus, to liver failure. He said we *could* do a blood test but because of her size it would have to be a cardiac stick, which is risky, and nothing diagnosable via blood test is treatable so we would be testing just for the knowledge. He said the only thing of all the possibilities that is really treatable is a bacterial infection/ sepsis so he recommended we be safe and start her on the same antibiotics my sand boa was on. I agreed with him, no sense in testing if it's not something we could treat, so she's on a month of antibiotics injections. He did point out a bit of a red mark on her side and said it could be a scuff, the start of shed cycle (she's about due) or it could he what he called sepsis blush (a sign of sepsis, though she's acting and eating like normal), so better to treat just on case.
He gave her subcutaneous fluids, too, which I think was really good for her. It'll be a bit of a pill managing her injections and her shyness with food but I think we can manage. I will give her three days to rest, give her next injection in the and see if she will eat PM that same day to give her tbe next full two to digest before injecting again.
Doc gives a prognosis of "guarded" but I think she will be ok.Time to pick up some OT at work to make up the cost of vet bills! She is definitely worth it!
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