HELP: He bit the feeding tongs!

[Zombree]

So I was feeding him and I usually use tongs, but this time, he missed and grabbed ahold of both the tongs and the mouse, and so he had, in his mouth the looped in his mouth (my tongs look kind of like this: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21%2BZ9Pqn49L.jpg ) and, thinking that he might try to swallow it, I tried to get him to let go, spraying him with water and kind of running it over his face and manually trying to pry his jaws open. There was a lot of blood on the mouse, but upon further inspection, he bit a hole in the mouse, and the blood is probably from the mouse. When he let go, he was breathing kind of funny (although I think that might've been from the water).

I have the option of--going to the emergency room (vet) here to get him checked just in case (but, he does seem fine for the most part other than the wheezing) or leaving him alone. I was just on the phone with one of the emergency techs at the local vet hospital and I know walk ins cost 100. Should I just wait till tomorrow and schedule something?

He is obviously. Not interested in eating right now. Should I just try again next week?

Other than getting new tongs to avoid another incident, I think you should let him calm down. Completely remove the food from you, the room, get the smell of everything- even the fear/freak out hormone smell off of you. Wash your hands. Next inspect the animal after a few minutes. As others have said, look for signs of flickering and normal functioning. I don't think there would be any reason to go to the ER VET, but I could be mistaken. A lot of the times animals sense your level of anxiety, if you are extremely anxious- as you seem to be, they will be, too. Thus displaying abnormal signs of behavior and further interfering with the process ;P With that said, I really hope it was just a misfire and he's alright.

EDIT: Also, a note for the future. Never, ever, ever, try to manually pry open a snake's jaws. Especially if you are freaking out. If anything you will do more damage.