I felt it, it was really stiff. Like he had just swallowed a block of wood, if he wasn't frozen, I don't know what it was. I knew not to warm him up too quickly, that's why I used my hands as opposed to breathing on him or putting him in a warm cage. It's like when you are working out in the snow, and you come in and run hot water on your hands it is EXTREMELY uncomfortable. I warmed him up over about 2 minutes.
Greg.... your snake was not frozen... plain and simple. Next time, just leave it to warm up in room temperature air. Whether or not you've caused damage remains to be seen.

Is it possible that the cold might have kept him alive? I know that when someone gets a finger cut off, you are supposed to keep it on ice until you can get to a hospital.
That is to stop decomposition from occurring so that there are more hopes of reconnecting the tissue and getting it to stay healthy. If a person dies, they keep the body very cold. Does that keep them, or bring them back to life? of course not. If a person is extremely ill and on the verge of death, cooling them down to almost freezing would do nothing but kill them.. the last thing it would do is keep them alive. The same can be said for a reptile or any other creature... cooling is done to stop decomposition by slowing/halting the growth of bacteria. Not to keep things alive.

I wish I had too. At the time though, I was more worried about getting the snake back alive than to filming the whole thing, with my luck he would have died in the time I was filming it.
Don't take that comment too seriously. lol.

I had taken a few courses on emergency care. When you dial 911, no matter who you need, the police are always first on the scene. You learn a little bit of emergency care, just in case you are first on a scene and you need to prevent them from dying until the EMT/Paramedics get to the sceme.
How much police training do you really get at 15? Where I live we received these same courses as a part of regular school. It doesn't apply to reptiles, it applies to humans. If you had just laid him on your counter, he would have revived on his own.


If he wasn't frozen, what were the SOLID chunks along his body? They felt like ice. Plus how about if he hadn't been frozen long enough to destroy the tissue? Honestly It is about 1/5-1/4 the length down the snake. I wasn't sure of the heart location either, so I took the brightest light I had, and shined it through him (he is albino, I could see through him) and located the heart (it is longer than a human heart).
Your imagination running wild, perhaps? It certainly wasn't ice you were feeling. Please tell me, how would the internal organs freeze FIRST before his extremities of skin, tail and that sort of thing? We don't doubt that you located his heart. But you didn't locate a frozen heart. A reptile's heart beats slower and slower the cooler they get. If they get cold enough. It can seem as though it has completely stopped. Whether the animal is frozen for 3 seconds of an hour, it doesn't matter. The irreversible damage is caused the exact moment the water forms into ice crystals. Water expands in volume when it freezes. To see what I mean fill a jug COMPLETELY with water until there is no air left. Freeze it. The jug will be either really distended or may even crack open because the ice expands it so much. This same thing happens on a tiny basis inside of cells. The water turns to ice, explands and ruptures their cell membranes. This is why frozen specimens cannot really have a necropsy performed that would give any sort of real indication as to why it died. The moment tissue is frozen, it is damaged.