Vet just called, great, great, GREAT news. Ryan did very well in surgery, and it was easier than we hoped. She said he went under very well and came out very well, he is still groggy but she did a partial reversal of anesthetic and has him in the warm reptile room which should help metabolize the drugs out of his body faster.
She said there was no tissue death whatsoever, since I caught it early and did a good job keeping it lubed and moist, so she went through the abdomen and carefully pulled the intestine back in, while a second person with a lubed q tip guided from the Prolapsed side. Then she tacked it to the abdomen wall. He is not prolapsed at all now...
She was really happy with him, because normally most of their Chams don't have as great an outcome.
Not out of the woods yet, she said she still worries a lot about the first night as the reptiles wake up, so hopefully that will go ok. He has extra fluids and she continued the same antibiotic and gave him pain meds, too.
And now she thinks it could be parasites! We don't have a useable poop yet, but when they get one they will send the fecal out and determine if that is a factor before deworming.
He will still be staying the weekend but I will be by tomorrow w silks, and hopefully pick him up Monday.
Lessons learned: you can save your Cham SO MUCH pain, if not their life, and yourself so much money and heartache by having a plan in place (which I did, but didn't work as nearly all my go-to vets weren't in) and when it doesn't work, never give up hope. I texted my breeder, who had the fastest advice. Act AS FAST as possible. Just do something, don't wait, There are answers out there and people that will help (even if you have to plead to be taken in as a new patient!). Don't worry about being a pest, I called some of the same vets 3-4 times because I either didn't get all the info I needed, or I couldn't read what I wrote down! "Do you treat reptiles? Do you have a herp SURGEON? They're not in? Exactly when will they be in? Will a referral get us seen faster? Where else can you recommend? If we come now and wait the night, will we be seen faster?, etc".
Other lessons learned: even if you think you have a totally sanitary feeder situation, GET your darn lizard tested for parasites NOW. You don't even need to disrupt them by taking them in (which was my worry). Just grab a poop! $100 bucks could save their life and you $2000+ shortly down the road.
Be insanely diligent about feeding times and if there is leftover live food from the prior feeding or not, and how much they are eating at once.
And, you know what? I could not have done this without all of you. Your support and helpful suggestions have be indispensable, but even moreso, in the months before I got Ryan, this was my go-to place to learn about proper setup, supplement schedules, the best products, do's and don'ts, everything. If you see some of my first posts about cage set-up, all of that is what I learned here. That is what got me this far with a healthy Cham, and that is why he so far has such a good outcome.
Thank you!!! So far, a very, VERY happy ending.
Praying his recovery goes just as uneventfully!
This must be so stressful for him. When is the soonest they’ll let you take him home? I would think that once he’s back home in his own ‘house’ he’ll be feeling better. 
going to check out that pet insurance
for the recovery. You did great, chapeau 
