dhm198555
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Well, finaly got Picasso to the vet. The vet said he couldn't for sure tell me right then exactly how he came to be covered in these bumps but said he believed Picasso was suffering from basically a whole lot of abscesses.
He said a whole bunch of stuff about it all probably stemming from the toxic rhododendron plant that was in his cage and the massive amount of free roaming crickets I told him were in the cage when I got him home. He also said he'd never seen a reptile covered in so many abscesses at once but that thankfully seemed to be healing up extremely well all on his own. He brought up some other possibilities, cancers, fungal infections, but didn't think that's what these are and won't really know for sure until he gets the results back on the samples I gave him as well as a few he gathered during the visit. I scheduled a follow-up for next week but he said things are looking really good. He gave Picasso an injection of antibiotics, cleaned up the worst of the bumps, gave me some info on caring for a sick reptile and sent me on my way. He instructed me to continue with the antibiotic ointment if any of them open up but since the last pics I posted of him, all of Picassos sores have completely healed over, some of them even disappearing already, and the ones on his face are about 15% of their original size. I had actually brought in the first pictures I had posted on here of his so he could see how bad he was.
Anyway, I'm sooo unbelievably happy with the outcome of all of this and because of it have become intensely attached to the little bugger who will most definitely have a much much happier life then he's had.
Thanks again to everyones help and support through all this. Ill make sure to post what the vet ends up telling me when he gets the results back but were both pretty confident whatever the actual issue was it's over now
He said a whole bunch of stuff about it all probably stemming from the toxic rhododendron plant that was in his cage and the massive amount of free roaming crickets I told him were in the cage when I got him home. He also said he'd never seen a reptile covered in so many abscesses at once but that thankfully seemed to be healing up extremely well all on his own. He brought up some other possibilities, cancers, fungal infections, but didn't think that's what these are and won't really know for sure until he gets the results back on the samples I gave him as well as a few he gathered during the visit. I scheduled a follow-up for next week but he said things are looking really good. He gave Picasso an injection of antibiotics, cleaned up the worst of the bumps, gave me some info on caring for a sick reptile and sent me on my way. He instructed me to continue with the antibiotic ointment if any of them open up but since the last pics I posted of him, all of Picassos sores have completely healed over, some of them even disappearing already, and the ones on his face are about 15% of their original size. I had actually brought in the first pictures I had posted on here of his so he could see how bad he was.
Anyway, I'm sooo unbelievably happy with the outcome of all of this and because of it have become intensely attached to the little bugger who will most definitely have a much much happier life then he's had.
Thanks again to everyones help and support through all this. Ill make sure to post what the vet ends up telling me when he gets the results back but were both pretty confident whatever the actual issue was it's over now
