Stuck shed???

[Bogertophis]

He didn’t take to the food anyway, I’ll be waiting a day or two then trying again with another medium mouse.
I’ll keep using vetrycin on the wound and hope that helps, I was also given injectable antibiotics to administer every other day and they took a culture swab of the scabbing that I’ll get the results for next week. She said he had some discoloration (two small red spots on his stomach) and because the scarring on his back is somewhat raised and that’s what the signs of infection are

i don’t know why she doesn’t want me tube feeding, but for some reason she was really against the idea of trying to do it at all outside of when she did it today. It’s hard because he hasn’t been acting differently at all, he’s still perfectly active and loves to climb and explore and be handled, and my previous snake died to infections (he was kept with my parents, I was young) and the idea of losing Pecan to infection is making me sick.

Thanks- you hadn't mentioned his ventral red areas, or puffiness of the scabbed area. That's why it's important to see a vet, & in person whenever possible.

If you can inject antibiotics, you should be fine to tube-feed. I'd rather tube-feed a snake any day. Do talk to your vet- I have a feeling that she's had people do it wrong in the past & totally mess up, & she doesn't know where you're getting your information from. There's plenty of misinformation around.