Similar experience last year
Last year one of my females, now nicknamed "juggy" (keep reading) had gotten loose while my friends were taking care of my snakes for me while I was in the hospital (salmonella poisoning - a confirmed case from Perkins restaurant - NOT reptiles) She crawled into a milkjug that had about a 1/2 inch of water still in it and laid a clutch of 19 eggs. After cutting the jug open and incubating the eggs I found (all of which hatched despite being somewhat underwater for about two days) I returned her to her tub in the rack and she proceeded to lay an additional 9 eggs over the next week or so. Most of these eggs never hatched, and as I recall, only a couple of them were actually fertile. She recovered just fine and went on to lay a second and then a third clutch, both of which were completely normal. She is however, a very large and robust snake, and it would have been next to impossible to detect any remaining eggs inside her abdomen, so I am assuming she was never technically "egg-bound". If you're considering manually removing any remaining eggs, I would check out Kathy Love's site, where she outlines how she does so with a large-guage needle. I have had luck with bathing suspected egg-bound females in a 10 gallon tank with about two-three inches of warm water around 95-100* for a couple hours. One of my snow corns passed her last egg that way, which was at least twice the size of any of her other eggs.
Just a few suggestions, but if you take her to a vet, make sure he/she has experience with reptiles, and remember, a lot of vets can be very "sharps-friendly" (I used to work in a clinic, and often times the vets' first response had to deal with a scalpal or needle...)
Hope it helps.
Paul
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