Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't myco frequently flare up with stress? So injury -> stress -> myco flare up -> puffiness to her breath, with the odd sneeze/coughing thing...
As long as the injury is minor and does not get badly infected, my guess would be she'll heal up ok. I've had a couple if mice get injured that have recovered just fine. One I soaked the injury and intended to apply neosporin but forgot and when I got back to it a little later it already looked SO much better I decided to leave it alone. The other I did nothing at all cuz it was on the face and I didn't see how I could do anything without ending up up drowning the mouse and/or getting medicine in its eyes and nose.
The higher temp is worrisome, if that is even a reliable method of taking a temperature. Good idea though! But, plenty of animals can recover just fine from a fever, and although I have no idea about rodents, I wouldn't write her off because of it.
EDIT: I decided I'd left out an important part of the story. I've had 2 mice get similar face injuries, both males, both almost immediately after putting together a new colony. I must have some genes that tell the girls that biting a guy in the face is the way to let him you know aren't in the mood... Anyway, the one healed up just fine. The other, the first time I saw the injury it looked minor, like the first one had. The next time I checked, his entire face was badly swollen, eyes swollen shut, his entire body language told me he was a very unhappy mouse. I decided to put that one out of his misery, so I don't know if he would have recovered or not.
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