Brought home a severely underweight BP baby. Please help me get her back on track

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Hi!

Not many more updates for this thread I think, because I believe she's finally leaving the woods - but I will post a few every so often til she's 100%. I finally was able to give her back her substrate, favorite basking branch and hides, and some foliage cover. She is THRILLED about it, because she's a goof and really loves to sit on her branch and channel her inner Green Tree Python (she will even strike, coil, and eat her meal from her branch). She will still get it taken away for sheds because the last 1/4 of her body is still really soft fragile skin, but she's in no danger of tears when she isn't in shed anymore.

Now that her wounds have scarred and healed over, she can take appropriately sized prey items instead of smaller but more frequent. She get small adult mice and has the voracious feeding response of a starving dragon, and I think if I let her she'd eat every day. When it's not food time she is a wonderful curious little thing and likes to watch the goings-on of the house.

She has one bump (cyst?) That needs vet attention, as when she shed several times ago her skin peeled over it and instead of healing over it, the skin healed around it. So, I'm guessing she will need that professionally removed and skin stitched back together, but as of now it's dry and hard and 'healed' and doesn't seem to bother her so it's not a top priority, I'd like to wait a few more sheds for her skin to fully recover and for her to gain weight. She's healthier but still a little skinny.

She's at about 150ish grams now. We've been fighting this for a full year now, and she's gained 100 grams. That doesn't sound like a lot, but when you look at where she started...a decent amount of that has been gained in the last 3-6 months. I'd guess it takes a huge amount of calories to heal that much, so she's been mostly maintaining with an ever so slight upward trend until recently when she started packing on the grams. Huge relief, huge difference.

Overall I'm extremely pleased and she has shown me I made the right call helping her through everything and now she's growing like a weed and I'll get to give her a bigger tank than a 10 gallon!!!! (Argus outgrew his in weeks, she's lived in it for a year but it's getting a little tight finally!)

(Full disclosure, she does have a cool hide, it was soaking in the sink. All temps are spot on per heat gun and regulated, she just really likes her branch).

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