Welcome to the forum. Same thing happen to me about 3 months ago. Only have one left for myself and gave one to laurie. Those babies are hard to take care. I have one in a 12x12x12 glass tank now, using a reptisun 5.0 no heat lamp for him, he seem to be doing good. The one I gave to laurie was...
Not true at all, Most chameleon chew their food hard. You can hear the worm crunch or pop out guts. It's just a myth I first heard about it with leopard geckos. Even if they did survive the bite they would drown in the stomach.