Can anyone please help?!?

[ConcinusMan]

It seems many of you have had experience in this area of retained sheds, in fact so much so that some you know procedure(s) to deal with this issue. Interesting...

Well of course! If you keep a lot of snakes and over many years, you're bound to run into this problem sooner or later. There's basically only two kinds of snake keepers. Ones that have dealt with it, and those that are going to face it soon enough.

Any stone throwing done here was out of concern for the animal.

Exactly. Don't take it personally. When you ask for advice here, you're going to get it even if it's not what you wanted to hear. And of course, individual experiences and opinions will vary.

This sounds like great news. Glad the snake is out of immediate danger. Updated post-shed pics would be nice.

[Ruth]

I just wanted to say I've been following this thread and am very greatfull for it and with you asking for advice. I haven't had any shedding problems but as ConcinnusMan says most of us will face something similar and it's nice to have this information logged in my mind for if it should happen to any snakes in my care. Though I hope I'm the exception and this never happens to any of my snakes, but then we all hope that.

[d_virginiana]

... Saying that someone with lots of snake experience is a poor keeper because they know how to deal with retained shed is kind of like saying someone is a poor daycare provider for knowing what to do when a kid has the chicken pox

I just wanted to say I've been following this thread and am very greatfull for it and with you asking for advice. I haven't had any shedding problems but as ConcinnusMan says most of us will face something similar and it's nice to have this information logged in my mind for if it should happen to any snakes in my care. Though I hope I'm the exception and this never happens to any of my snakes, but then we all hope that.

Watching any potential 'trouble' snakes like crazy is good prevention for retained shed. I've had several instances, usually in snakes recovering from mouth infections (I think the light scarring may make it difficult for them to get started shedding?) that could have very easily gone from a difficult shed to a retained shed if I hadn't been able to deal with it immediately. I've also started running a humidifier in their room when someone goes blue. Doesn't get the humidity too high, but I've noticed the sheds seem to go better for everyone when I do.
There's a good thread on here somewhere with retained shed/eyecap images that is pretty helpful for deciding when you need to take action for a retained shed.