I just wanted to update everyone on my chameleon Hermie, with MBD. I took him to the vet today for new xrays. His bones appear to be showing up slightly better on xray, meaning that hopefully they have regained some of thier density (though they still are not looking good). His bones ARE healing crooked, especially one of his back femurs, but both ends are touching which will allow them to fuse. He is so small and fragile the vet doesn't feel that it is realisitic to put pins in his leg like she would do for a larger animal. Also his spine and jaw are both showing up very nicey on the xrays, meaning that they still are unaffected.
What I feel is the more positive news though is that he is moving around more, and can hold himself up off the ground more (before he kind of crawled/slithered around). His back legs are imobilized at the knee so he has a hard time walking at the angle they are being held at, but he manages. And even better: He ate his first crickets today in about 5 weeks, in fact he ate five of them!
His coloring is very nice again -- bright green with yellow stripes. He also LOVES apple sauce and will eat about 3 ccs a day. We started mixing a little vitamin dusting powder in it once or twice a week, since he wasn't getting dusted crickets.
I don't feel like we are out of the woods yet, but we're continuing to take a few steps forward little by litte.
What I feel is the more positive news though is that he is moving around more, and can hold himself up off the ground more (before he kind of crawled/slithered around). His back legs are imobilized at the knee so he has a hard time walking at the angle they are being held at, but he manages. And even better: He ate his first crickets today in about 5 weeks, in fact he ate five of them!
His coloring is very nice again -- bright green with yellow stripes. He also LOVES apple sauce and will eat about 3 ccs a day. We started mixing a little vitamin dusting powder in it once or twice a week, since he wasn't getting dusted crickets. I don't feel like we are out of the woods yet, but we're continuing to take a few steps forward little by litte.
