We needed to perform another health check on a male African Rock python. Unfortunately he was in a lot worse condition than the one we did yesterday. His body condition was very poor, wasted muscle mass. He was not eating... He was very sick. We tried to get blood from him, but the challenge this time was not that he was not relaxed enough to get blood, it was because he was so anemic, there was barely any blood to get out of a vein. We treated him as much as we could. We actually had to bring him back to the hospital to keep him for observation because his prognosis was very guarded. Not many of of think he was going to make it after a period of time. He was a snake that was confiscated from a private owner and was already in an unhealthy condition, so it has been a battle for the keepers to try and bring him back to normal.
Hameed still was not feeling 100%. He was trying to get over a flu, so we did not have much to do in the afternoon.
After catching up on my blog in my banda for a while, Pete came and knocked on my door and invited me over to his banda (which was right beside mine) for some beer and BBQ! Finally, having some company over here was nice. There were also two girls from the UK who were travelling Uganda and doing a placement at some community hospitals for completing medical school. Pete had brought his own little rotisserie machine to put over the fire and he made some really good jerk pork! Afterwards we had all decided we wanted to go out for some drinks. So we went to the local club called the Trap. It was not really busy being only the middle of the week, but we still had a good time!
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