But at least she's not a patient in intensive care like when she came to me a couple of months ago.
She is fat and beautiful, and acting just like any normal lizard who isn't sick--that's the good news; the bad news is her front feet are falling off . . . literally.
She came to me with an infection in the toes of her front feet. For quite a while they hurt her so bad that she'd walk around waving her feet in the air every few minutes or so. The infection did not respond to Baytril, so I treated it topically and it seemed to get better; she stopped waving her feet constantly, and started to use them for walking and digging.
Late last week I noticed that the infection had not been stopped and was, in fact, spreading to her feet. She had already lost a few toes, which did not worry me particularly, but now the rest of the toes on both her front feet are dead or dying, and the pads of her feet are inflamed and red--obviously raging with a horrible infection. Still she's quite the trooper, walking on them like nothing's wrong. I've restarted the Baytril and also resumed the topical treatment. I think that a little bit of the inflamation has gone down since Sunday, but her feet still look like little raw sausages. Poor thing. I have never, ever seen an infection this bad before.
That said, I am optimistic that this will not prove to be fatal. She's survived so much already that this doesn't really seem to be phasing her at all. Still, keep your fingers crossed for the sweet girl.
élan
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