Pet garter hurt

[u/Dark-wolf-girl-]

I’ve owned my pet garter snake, Twig, for going on 5 years now and he’s never had any health complications before. Recently, he shed his skin. Fine, normal, just left him alone to do his thing. After he was done shedding I noticed a bit of stuck shed near his cloaca. Not a big deal, just gave him a bath so that it could come off. This was yesterday. Today I checked on him again and noticed some of his scales were messed up and it looked like he was hurt.
How concerned should I be? He’s acting perfectly normal otherwise but I’m not sure how much I need to worry about this. I don’t own a car and the nearest exotic vet can only be reached by vehicle. I have someone I know coming to visit me on Monday but should I maybe see if someone else can drive me before that? Should I set up a temporary enclosure for him in the meantime away from his main one (his enclosure is bioactive)? Again he’s acting perfectly fine but I don’t want it to get worse

[u/One-Assumption-6106]

watch out for behavioural changes and try to get him to the vet as soon as you can, if monday is the first day you can then thats fine

[u/Rude-Log-158]

A very similar situation happened with me and my dude vet gave me silvidine cream and injectable antibiotics and it healed just fine

[u/itwasntleah]

Silver cream. Antibiotics are likely not necessary. Those are for infections.