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Hi Lori and everyone,
Found the site...was so engrossed at reading your replies to my emails that I never actually saw the links on the bottom of the letters [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
I wanted to post a letter to once again thank Lori, without her help this snake would have definiately died during that first week. What Lori didn't mention to you all is that she stayed with me via emails and on the phone the entire night till the wee hours of the morning, she got me as well as my new baby through a really tough night, not usually an insomniac I couldn't sleep at all worrying about my snake.
As I've told Lori previous I really can not believe the turnaround this animal has made. I've worked for Vets in a limited capacity in the past and my parents also owned a pet shop for a number of years so I do have a bit of experience in nursing sick mammals and birds but unfortunately not much nursing skills with reptiles (luckily mine have all been healthy) I've never in all those years seen a critter make such a remarkable recovery in just one week. 'Lori' as she is now named is fully recovered and has been feeding, drinking is fully hydrated and showing her beautiful Salmon coloring as if she had never been ill. Also a bit of swelling in her bottom jaw is completely gone.
I'm hoping that in four years or so I'll be able to send Lori one of Salmon Lori's babies as her way of saying thanks [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] Also many thanks to all of you that relayed information for Lori to give me. Luckily we didn't need to utilize the Baytril or the Vet recommended but the info has been stored in my computer and if we need help in the future I'll know where to go.
Also I do feel the need to put in a good word for the dealer who sold me this snake. Not sure if I mentioned this to Lori but she was sold to me at a greatly reduced price (less than most common colored BCI's) because of the dehydration/not feeding/thin problem. I bought her 'as is' thinking that I could rely on the old standby's of soaking, raising humidity, perhaps even force feeding pinkie parts if it came to that. I was prepared for all this, what threw me into a tailspin was when she started showing RI problems shortly after arriving home. Since all the treatments for dehydration conflict with treatments for RI's I was totally at a loss as to what to do for her!! [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img] I contacted the dealer just to give him a heads up on the situation...Florida had been in the middle of a very unusual cold snap and I feared that the lower temps may have caused the illness in my baby. The dealer was very concerned and ended up bringing the rest of the babies home with him so that he could monitor them and give them additional heat if needed. He also offered to make restitution should the snake die (this even though I had purchased the animal 'as is'). He offered many suggestions for treatment, which I didn't need to follow since I had gotten the very best treatment recs from Lori. [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] So while it was a really frightful situation I can't really blame the dealer...more so blame myself for getting in over my head LOL.
Can't thank you all enough!!! Love your forums and you all.
Meryl
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