sorry this is going to be a bit long, but how much of what is posted is fact?? is what she's doing good for the reptile in her care? i have removed names and some other stuff but not the gist of the post
you are NOT talking about the same type of care as i am! the wildlife group i am with has very experienced members & people who work at reptile parks, zoos etc. they are the people i get my advice from, people with verified experience & training! i suggest maybe you might want to call the australian reptile park, taronga zoo, national parks & wildlife or anyone else who has experience with injured lizards before jumping to conclusions based on your reptile forums, which at times are as bad as this place is on medical advice! know your facts!
if injured with the type of injuries above, wild lizards do NOT go out in the sun! they find somewhere they can hide away & die end of subject. if you want to keep a lizard alive with injuries where it hides away to die, you give it towels or paper kitty litter or both (depending on it's injuries) you put a thermastate controlled heat pad under either the whole enclosure or part of it (again dependent on injuires) and you put a thermometer in the enclosure near the heat pad & you monitor the enclosure temp
you monitor the lizards condition & treat the injuries as much as possible without stressing to the point where the stress does harm. you keep the lizard in a darkened environment until the injuries reach the point where the lizard is ready to come out & start living again (generally months) you then encourage the lizard to eat & drink on it's own, which it will generally only do in complete black of night for more months & this can be a very challanging time, working out how many weeks to let the lizard go without eating anything before you force feed again. eventually you get to the point where the lizard starts to be ready for some sunlight (often a year or more after coming into care) by this time you're starting to get to know the lizards personality & so you base the decision on where the sunlight comes from on that. some of mine like outdoor genuine sunshine, some like to be near me for security while in the sun, others genuine sunshine but only if i'm out of site, others like a heat lamp & refuse to be outdoors still. around this time it's also normally possible to put them into an enclosure that allows them to choose heat pad or cool.
once they accept the sunshine, it's then a question of working with their shedding cycles because aroudn shedding time they will again generally refuse to be in the sun & need to be kept moist & on the heat pad. if they choose to go off the heat pad, then again often you can put the lamp on as often as you like, but they still aint coming anywhere near it! & if they go off the heat pad & refuse sunshine they generally stop eating too
i'm not talking here about the type of lizards you have!!!! by the time they're nearing release they behave like yours do & when i see that i release! first sign they're ready to release, they come out each day for a feed if hungry, an explore & sunbake & they control their own movements on & off the heatpad to regulate their own temperature. once they're doing that consistantly i move them to an outdoor enclosure & monitor to ensure they are sunning themselves & then put snails & other live food in the cage for them to find & eat when hungry as well as various fruit veggies, meat, eggs etc with a range of native vegitation & things they will find in the wild that are edible. i feed them at different times whenever feeding. i wouldn't feed after about 3-4 pm in any but the hottest months as they need time to digest the food before it gets cold. no way i would be feeding only an hour before sunset in this weather!
they are then released after being fattened up as much as possible in good weather & early enough in the year that they can orientate themselves to their new surroundings & find somewhere for tarpar (generally about April would be the latest i'd release, if not ready by then, they stay inside on the optional heat pad & sunlamp till spring & spend time in their cage but also out exploring & ensuring their behaviour remains as natural as possible, plus real sunlight on warm days)
so that's how injured lizards go. sorry but they jsut don't behave the same way as healthy ones & it's silly & misinformed to suggest they do!
as for calcium, well calcium of course comes from food. i feed them chicken and roo mince (the mince that has chunks of bone, beak etc in it designed for suplimenting calcium) plus woomaroo "reptile supliment" and a mix of veggies, legumes etc that also contain calcium, but primarily they're covered by the supliment & the mince is an extra top up (given teh bone injuries so many have, it's important that they have higher levels than normal) vitamin D they get from the supliment too, a little more from the sunlight but i always feed all of mine food containing vitamin d as you can't rely on injured reptile behaviour allowing them enough sunlight consistantly for vitamin D
the pic above is one of my care lizards who was run over by a car. she was brain damaged & lost one eye & had such extensive injuries that she was not capable of eating or drinking for over 3 months! i bathed her to get fluids into her, washed the blood out of her mouth regularly & tube fed her liquid consistance food before gradually getting her to eat soft foods & then harder & harder foods (and all the time she was on a liquid diet, i still had to stimulate & clean her teeth so as not to allow infection or rotting in as happens if lizards don't chew hard foods) once she was ready for the sunshine & to come out of hiding, i had to teach her to walk again because due ot her injuries she would spin in circles & claw her own tail. i had to rehab her with gentle streches to stop her muscles & body seising up, move her legs for her, gently massage & strech her neck so that over months she was able to straighten it again, help her with each shed, teach her how to identify dangers like birds with only one eye & mostly & most difficulty, try to teach her not to go back onto roads like the one where she was originally run over (or at least to fear car noises). what's that? lizards go onto roads? why would they do that that's not natural is it? lizards don't like heat on their belly, they never lie on roads or driveways or warm rocks, they only ever want their heat from above