Today I took in phoenix/ Gabriel to the vet because she was not looking good and had been not eating for some time now. She also developed a weird lump on her back and stopped moving. Well, I took her in and the vet took some x-rays and found a huge mass on her back that had grown on her spinal cord. She is now paralyzed from her lungs down and can't control enough of her body to move around her cage. The worst part about it is that there is nothing that can be done. It can not be removed and it is destroying the bones while it continues to grow larger.
He has no idea what caused this, but he does not thing that it is infectious. His first guess was that it was an old trauma that kept building scar tissue and cartilage, but then he said it looked like a tumor that started underneath the spine and reeked havoc while it grew. Either way, he said there was nothing that could have been done and there is nothing to do now.
This sucks so badly! I mean, I just had her out a few weeks ago, and she was fine. I thought that she was just going off food for a while; I never thought that anything like this was wrong. I don't know what to do, I am just so sick. She is so beautiful, it makes me ill to have had this just come out of freakin' left field.
The worst part of this for me is knowing (but not feeling), that I did everything that I could do. I had her in a great boaphile enclosure, temp controlled room, I cleaned out the cage every week and spot cleaned every day, and I even had her checked out when I first got her too. There is nothing else that I could have done to make her more comfortable, and she still ends up like this. It is bull.
I feel so bad because she felt like a redtailboas.com family pet, and now she is going to be put down. I just can’t say enough how much this sucks.
Sorry for whining. Thanks for reading.
