Okay, here we go again. I'm sure you're all tired of hearing this type of thing.

Anyway I have an adult ball I have had for years and she came out this morning sporting a pair of brown/red lesions under her jaw. They are symmetrical and appear to be missing scales, directly under her eye centered on each side of the bottom of her lower separating jaw thing. I immediately stripped the tank clean, bleached it, and put in clean pine bedding- keeping the old wood chunks and hide out. I gave her a cardboard box to ball up in temporarily and a clean bowl of water.

I'm worried it's mouth rot, some other form of bacterial thing, or something fungal that I can't treat. I think she's clean of mites (they move a little bit if you're looking at them, right?).

She has over-head lighting and a humidifier/humid sponge box for shedding time, but even with that help in the winter here in the midwest she usually retains some scales near her head/neck.

I went ahead and Q-tipped her injuries with hydrogen peroxide, and I guess it hurt because she bit me; and that's totally uncharacteristic of this snake.

The problem is, I don't know where there's a reptile vet here. The nearest one is likely hundreds of miles away and I have no mode of transportation and no money.... I own a python because it's a low cost pet.

She isn't acting odd other than being sensitive to being touched on a wound, obviously. She's lively and flicking her tongue all the time, and her belly is otherwise healthy looking white.

Are there any methods I can use to remove the small amount of retained scales from the poor shed she had, and what else can I do/what signs should I look for? She definitely had adequate ruffage, and she's definitely not dehydrated, the humidity here is just impossible to maintain. for a few months each year. I never had this problem before my under-cage heater (literally) burned out, but again, no money.