something great just happened!
I heard a rukus coming from my lizard tank and went to find my 1 year old girl gagging up the bedding material. It was jammed into her mouth and she was gasping for breath, black beard, looking terrible! I grabbed her and took her to the sink and put her down on a towel while i got some good water temp going. Within a 20 seconds, she wasnt moving, eyes closed, bad lookin.
I managed to clear out her mouth and throat and then repeatedly tried to make her gag reflex for lack of a better phrase make her cough up the rest of the material. She cleared it, but wasnt moving, and was barely reacting. You've all been there. Then for about 15 minutes, I repeatedly breathed into her mouth and massaged where i thought her lungs would be, occasionally opening her mouth up and getting a little water in there. Every so often, she'd make a water or breathing noise. After a good TWENTY MINUTES of this (i wasnt giving up) like on ER, she started to respond and showing signs of life. i also did little things to provoke her feistiness and it WORKED!!!
She seems totally fine now, it's been a few hours and she's climbing around like normal. I am so ecstatic.
Rick
(-And you may wanna get her off that substrate so she doesn't try and eat it again...) 