For context, my 8 month old girl just recently shed two weeks ago. It was a full shed, including eye caps and the tail. She’s currently eating f/t weaned rats every 5 - 7 days. She lives in a 55 gallon wooden enclosure with coco fibre and coco coir substrate. Her hot side is about 31° Celsius and her cool side about 25-27°. She has 3 hides - a hot hide, a cool hide and a humid hide. Her humidity ranges from 65-70%. 80-90% during shed. She has lots of branches and rocks to climb on and she is extremely friendly and loves coming out for her handling and exploration sessions.

Yesterday was feeding day, so usually I don’t handle her. She literally has never missed a meal and has the appetite of a bull snake (except she’s scared of anything larger than a small weaned rat). She had peed in her warm hide and so came out to tell me and I checked it out. While I was cleaning, I had a friend hold her. My baby isn’t usually head shy with me but sometimes when someone very suddenly tries to touch her head she can get startled and jerk back. When I was done cleaning, my friend went to give her snoot a boop and my Ball python got a fright. She jerked her head back and the friend holding her dropped her on the floor in shock. When I picked her up she wasn’t even startled, it’s as if she hadn’t realised that she fell. She acted as if nothing happened, but upon closer inspection I noticed that her eye appeared to have a dent. Almost as if she was dehydrated or had a stuck eye cap. I took this as an injury. I think she landed with her eye onto my phone charger. I could still see her pupil moving to look at me and she didn’t seem to notice the injury.

I put her back into her enclosure and she went to sleep. Later on, at feeding time, she stuck her head out and waited for her food as normal. I was monitoring her behaviour so attempted to feed her and she found and took her meal no problem. I’m not sure what to think about the injury. It’s quite a dent but she doesn’t seem to notice it. She had no other injuries aside from this. Should I take her to the vet? Or will it perhaps lessen after he next shed when she sheds this eye cap off?