*i use a small zoo med pad, and didnt have temperature gauges until a couple days ago. Sooooooooooooooo soooooooooooo sorry for missing some of your questions.
* and as for the whole saving the mouse for later thing... I work in the restaurant industry. YOU DONT GET BREAKS. Period. Customers dont wait. Too many times have i had to buy mouse traps at 2am to catch all the mice that had eaten thru the cardboard boxes they were in and climbed up in my dash board. At one point, i had 5 mice loose in my car.
* and i'm not ignoring your suggestion! your suggestion is pointless because i already said i had been looking for a vet!!! i even called a 24 hour clinic but they said i needed someone who dealt with reptiles. Now tomorrow i will be at work from 10:00-4:30 and then back from 5:30- 1:30am. Sound like i'm able to take my snake to the vet? No. THATS why i posted. I wanted to know if there is any way to help him before i get him to the vet. I had assumed that i was doing something majorly wrong with the neosporin and hoping someone could could help me. So far, all you have done is interrogate me. thank you, SO MUCH for all the help.