Prolapse.... HELP.

[drache]

you go Shannon
I'm sure you can pull him through this

[anji1971]

Glad to hear his chances are looking good.
Now I'll pray for your boyfriend's poor sister...............hope everything is okay.

[crzy_kevo]

glad to hear hes not doing too bad we are all rooting for you

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

everything with his sister is getting a little better each day. She has even been regaining enough strength to let everyone know that shes REALLY angry with being so sick and in pain... she has been yelling at her mom and was even throwing stuff today.. we are actually all very happy that she is doing so! it means shes got spunk!!! My dad told one of his friends, and the guy actually called his church and ALL 300 members of that church got together last week and prayed just for her. It's amazing that they all did that for someone they have never even met! It is nice to know we have so much support. Her 16th birthday was on tuesday, and she was supposed to leave for a trip to Florida she had planned for a year last saturday... the poor girl! we are going to throw her the biggest party even when she gets home!

[Garter_Gertie]

I never had pneumonia while I had mono, but I had mono while away from home, at college. Somehow I got through it on my own, in my dorm room, never leaving my bed for 3.5 weeks but to potty and stagger to get food. Gotta tell ya, I was one sexy, slim babe! LOL!

I'm not trying to make light of your boyfriend's sister's situation, but just trying to say that even w/o the expert care she's getting, she should pull through. I'm trying to ease your mind.

You're a woman after my own heart. One of my cats, Little Girl, broke her leg. I took her to the U of MN vet school and forked out $2,500 for two surgeries (they pinned it and then had to remove the pins since up here the skin could have frozen to the pin-thingys if she'd gotten outside in the winter; too the body sees the pins as 'okay' for calcium and won't put calcium there and the bones actually become weaker if the pins and the metal things are left in.). Regrets? None at all. But I pray nothing like that happens today as I've not the means to pay for it.

I ramble.

But, you're doing the right thing for your boyfriends's sister and your snake. Love knows no species or dollar amount. It's not what you paid for the animal, but where it resides in your heart. I know many here may roll their eyes at me calling my animals my babies, but I never had kids. And my animals ARE truly my babies. I will put forth every dollar I can - over myself - for their well being.

It's okay, Shannon. You're doing everthing correctly. Hugs to you.

[Lori P]

Shannon, so sorry to here about your boyfriend's sister... tell her we're thinking about her and hope she feels better soon!! Poor girl. My sis just had her gall bladder removed 2 weeks ago and has done well, but lots of pain.

You really can sprinkle sugar on the prolapse to reduce swelling-- it won't hurt the snake and even the vets will use it in a pinch. It would be best to get it all back inside of him asap. Lots of good thoughts coming your way!

[KITKAT]

Shannon, so sorry to here about your boyfriend's sister... tell her we're thinking about her and hope she feels better soon!! Poor girl. My sis just had her gall bladder removed 2 weeks ago and has done well, but lots of pain.

You really can sprinkle sugar on the prolapse to reduce swelling-- it won't hurt the snake and even the vets will use it in a pinch. It would be best to get it all back inside of him asap. Lots of good thoughts coming your way!

Hi... how is he doing? Lori P is right. I had a vet instruct me to use sugar to re-insert a dog's um, male part, when it had extruded out and got swollen and stuck in that position. It worked, and it worked fast.