Slow eye recovery

[guidofatherof5]

That's amazing, Steve. Can I ask what you've been doing to treat his eye/head? I would have thought that eye was a gonner.

When the eye was at its worst I would treat it with mineral oil every other day. Once every couple of weeks I would give the snake about an hour in a high humidity shed box. I would then use a clean/wet 100% cotton towel and gently rub the eye. At first I would only spend a minute doing that since that was all the snake would tolerate. As time went on he would let me work longer at the eye. One of the last times, he let me try for about 30 minutes. I would have to hold his head to keep it steady but Patch made no attempts to get away.
It looks to me as if has the original cap or burn is left on the eye. I don't feel comfortable messing with that. I've done all the good I can do and don't want to injure the eye. I will leave the final work to a trained professional. I hope My Vet. can talk the Vet. eye specialist into donating the needed surgery. If they won't donate the surgery I hope they can make it affordable to me. I think the eye is 90% better than it was and left alone his vision is greatly improved. I also think it is entirely possible for his vision to be fully corrected and that's what I'm shooting for.

[jitami]

I'm quite impressed! Has he shed since getting to this point in his recovery? I'm wondering if that last little bit may come off with his next shed?

[guidofatherof5]

I'm quite impressed! Has he shed since getting to this point in his recovery? I'm wondering if that last little bit may come off with his next shed?

That's what I'm hoping for.