First blood

Poor Leila has had a tough few days. It started on Sunday with a runny nose and ended with a real wallop today!

Sunday evening Leila was so full of cold that she struggled to sleep. After 45 mins of restlessness we got her up for some Calpol. It makes sense now that she was so clingy over the weekend if she had been feeling this rotten. Luckily I was off work on the Monday and so could give her the cuddles and milk that she needed to start to shift it.  Although her nose was still running on Tuesday, she seemed to be over the worst of the cold itself.  

A few nights later though and she was feeling a lot better in herself (although her nose was still running like a tap!).  So much so that she was shrieking with joy at a game of chase around the living room and then along the corridor.  It all ended in tears though when she fell on the tiled floor and had a right whallop on her face.  Scotty tried to console her, but she was still wailing a few minutes later, so I took over.  It was only when  he passed her to me that I saw the streak of red blood on his white shirt where she had been leaning on his shoulder!  Poor little girl had cut her lip on her sharp teeth as she had fallen forward.  We gave her a bm ice lolly to try and stem the bleeding ad stop any swelling and she finally calmed down and felt a bit better.  This first blood though was a real shock!

EDIT:  A few weeks later we had our second blood. This wasn't self inflicted, but was the result of her habit of pointing and shouting at any cat that she sees!  Leila loves cats and meowing and the BCA garden cats are very calm, well behaved and tolerant of small children. It seems though that this week one took a friendly swipe at her outstretched arm and managed to scratch her.

Being typical first-time parents we were more upset than Leila was about this and so called our doctors immediately.  Looking at the scratch we could tell really that it was just a small one, but felt that it might be slightly negligent of us to not have the doc take a look at it.  Of course the doctor comes to our house and says that it's not even a 'small scratch' but superficial too! What fuss-pots we are! Luckily Leila is up to date with all her jabs (and the cut so small and clean) so she didn't need any further jabs.