Title: Took these for you 💗 I wanted to thank everyone for the real..

Message: Took these for you 💗 I wanted to thank everyone for the really kind comments and messages. You have been so supportive and I'm very grateful. To keep you updated: I still have covid. I've had it for about 3 days now and I feel like it's only gotten worse. I'll be testing again in 7 days to see if I'm still contagious so I won't be working until at least then. I've finally been slowly catching up in my classes, my professor let us retake a test we all did poorly on and I did much better the second time. I also took my chameleon to the vet for an emergency visit. Moving really seemed to have taken a toll on him and I noticed he seemed a little less active and weaker. Chameleons and reptiles in general don't show weakness. Showing sickness symptoms in the wild will make them a target for prey so they will not show any signs of weakness until it's either really bad or too late. I had some suspicion it could be something called gout which is a very common killer in chameleons but almost always result in death rapidly. So I took him in and had some tests done and while his blo od tests all came back positive, an x ray was done and he had pretty swollen kidneys. The doctor said this could either be from an infection that caused severe inflammation or it would be kidney cancer or a kindey tomour. An infection is more curable and fixable while cancer would not be and it'd be likely nothing would help him ): I get to pick him up tomorrow but won't know the test results for another 5-7 days. I don't know how many of you know but I don't have a family. I don't have any close friends either and so I use all of my animals as fillers for that gap. I'm very attached to my chameleon and parrot especially, they've been some of the only constant things in my life and I love them dearly. So this is why it's affecting me so much :/ that's the update so far,,,, I miss working and being stuck in bed is so boring. I'm getting tired of soup 😭