#parasitosis

[oceansubconscious]

Vergil transforms into Nelo Angelo

(a poem)

inspired by @two-bees-poetry ♥︎

[thlpp]

Caught her on LizardCam, surreptitiously basking.

Today begins the last 7-day course of her metronidazole treatment, with three courses of 5 days each of fenbendazole and four doses of ponazuril behind us.

She was so not on board with us making her open her mouth with a popsicle stick and squirting the meds into her mouth from a plastic syringe, she'd gone into 24/7 hiding. Her cage is in my office, and while I was present, ShadowChild was nowhere to be seen. She started flinching when I'd move my hand towards her. :(

LizardCam records events when motion is detected, but for days, there were almost no sightings of my poor babe, except for an occasional sneaky drink of water or a run to her bathroom corner.

After the first week, I couldn't see her traumatized like this any longer, and decided to give it a try with f/t m1ce, because that is the only food she hasn't refused a single time. I had a buffer of a couple of doses, so figured I could take a chance. If it works, maybe she'll return to being comfortable with our presence again.

She took the spiked m0use with gusto, and continued doing so for every single dose of meds so far!

She even started to eagerly scrabble out if her hide box to nom on the feeders!

I bought a bag of fuzzies from Layne Labs (our supplier of f/t prey for the whole reptile family), so as not to allow her to become fully spherical, while receiving treatments pretty much daily for a month. Fuzzies seem to excite her even more that fully grown m1ce, and she even lifts up her front body to snap them out from my tongs. Hurrah!

I started holding the food over her basking platform so that she'd get at least some UV, and also get a bit of exercise climbing. Not much, but anything is better than nothing, and she'd spent the majority of her time since the vet visit curled up in her hide

After two or three such medicated feedings, she began stationing on the platform for her treatment! Damn the girl is smart!

I'm not spoiled by intelligence from my snake kiddos, so this is delighting the heck out of me.

Yesterday I wasn't working at my desk, and that's when Miss Shadow came out to bask, all of her own volition, and stayed on the platform for more than half an hour.

Today, she's already hanging out underneath the platform. The fuzzy will be served for lunch.

Her love of them gives me hope for future training and enrichment, as they are small enough that I can give them to her as a reward. Literally, the only thing I've found that she'd eat whenever offered. I've gone up and down the tegu food list, and this so far is it. She's supposed to also like roaches, but the vet says she could have gotten some of her parasites through those, so we're not risking it (plus, insects are a personal ick of mine, so I'm not too sad the vet said no insects).

A week after the last dose, we'll recheck her stool for parasites, and hopefully our life can return to normal. She'll be getting a new cardboard box fort, and a possibly a coconut husk dig box. Will have to bake the compressed brick in the oven to make sure there are no nasties in it.

Always, optimistic long post is long enough. Just wanted to share how we've been doing with treatment.

[queer-as-in]

Okay okay okay cursed weight gain object OR. Creature taking one or both of the brothers to use them as living larders for their young by fattening them.up and keeping them docile while the creatures writhe around inside them

I'm picturing the boys being kept semi-sedated in a familiar environment so when they're conscious they just kinda think "huh, I'm so sleepy, I should go take a nap" and stumble toward their beds. but their bodies are laden withh cute pale, blind wormies with teeth who eat through them until their organs and muscles are one big ant farm of burrows

they're so docile that they notice things but don't track them. like, Dean just thinks he needs a new belt when he notices the initial weight gain and Sam fingers the delicate thinness of the skin in his new stretch marks and decides he likes how soft it is

Dean would be lowkey freaking tf out the entire time but be too out of it to take action based on the freaking out. for him it's like formication, watching his skin roil and writhe and only resisting cutting himself open to dig them out because he's too tired and it's probably in his head (maybe because he's too tired or has had too much to drink)

Sam would start to love it I think. he'd touch where the wormies are most active and stroke their movement inside them. he'd know on some level what was happening and that maybe it should concern him because even with being fattened up his body can only provide so much sustenance for a growing larva. but he'd get kind of wistful caressing the swells of his body and following the little trails of carnage inside him

[bamfwizard]

all is fine and well in tma until an episode hits a really specific fear or habit of yours

[ananayellow]

neurocysticercosis

[doctora-esther]

[humoracuoso38]

Parasitosis.

Infestado, siendo digerido poco a poco.

[albanah]