My ball python got a really minor injury. I've been keeping an eye on it. It was in between the two nostrils on its nose about the size of one scale--not even that. The snake has been healing slowly by the shed and the injury has gotten gradually smaller. (She's about 10 years old.)

However, it's also closing up one of her two nostrils as it heals. Should I be concerned? Will it make eating difficult? Is it vet time? She still can breathe fine, though she makes weird noises when her head is close to the glass of the cage, but she's kinda a weird snake anyway, well, for a ball python. She's the type to amuse herself doing such things.

I figure I should ask first because vets around here for snakes cost a ton and I don't want to bring in the snake and the vet says there is nothing we can do, now I'm gonna charge you.

If you need images, I can show them.