I made a mixture of pedialyte and gerber peas baby food and forcefed it to Sam yesterday and then again this morning. I got home today and was about to do it again, when I thought I'd try something. I help a piece of greens in front of her and she quickly grabbed it from my fingers and ate it up. I did this a bunch more times with the same result until finally she decided she was full.
I'll have to be sure not to handle her until I'm sure she's ready to pass it, because her digestive system is probably very delicate right now from not eating for so long and she could easily throw up. If she does I'll start the forcefeeding again and do it for longer. When a lizard hasn't eaten in a while they usually can't take solid foods right away without a good possibility of not being able to digest it and instead throwing it up. I'm hoping that tomorrow she might actually go to her bowl and eat by herself, but if not I'll offer it to her by hand again and we'll go from there.
This gives me more faith that the liver problem might be secondary to the parasite problem (huge load of pinworms), which would mean that she could recover.
I know how you felt when she started to eat. I had the same happy feeling when Buddy my mali started to eat on his own after he was starved for so long.
