Jess, I'm glad you got your pastel male back and sorry for his injuries. I hope all goes very well with his recovery. We have an adult female BP here that we adopted last year. She carries cat scratch scars (in her case a cat came down on her through a collapsed mesh lid on a glass tank at the previous owners home). I hope it will go as well for your snake as it did for her. She does carry some scars but they are thin and she's currently in for her first breeding cycle. With good vet care and your own experience, I'm sure your male will have the same happy future though right now it must be an awful worry for you.