First Blood

A friend of ours, Trevor, is visiting at the moment. Besides being a generally great guy, he is also very easy company, fitting right in to our way of life. However, there is a pretty major downside to his visit. Since he arrived, Leo has had a couple of accidents, including his first blood shedding. Is it fair to blame Trevor? Probably not, but you never know, Leo made it 23 months without shedding blood, then Trevor arrives and...

Abe, Trevor and Leo were outside, planning where to plant some trees we'll be getting in a couple of days. Leo was playing with Salsa (one of our dogs), and then he tripped and fell on her. She freaked out and snapped back at him, out of instinct not malice. Her tooth caught his forehead. Abe saw the wound before it started bleeding, and knew it wasn't too serious. My first sight of it however was very different.

I had heard him crying, so I started to go towards the door to see if he needed a mama cuddle. I got to the door at the same time as Abe did, Leo in his arms. My little baby's face and shirt were covered, and I mean covered, with blood, and he was screaming (had just been crying, but I think the blood in his eyes and everywhere else made the situation a lot worse). With my heart in my throat, we cleaned the blood away until we got to the wound, and it wasn't that bad. Heads bleed so much. We took him to the clinic in the village and the doctor cleaned it again and put a bandage on.

It's healing great. Leo points to it a lot and says "woof woof", but other than that he doesn't seem concerned by it. It certainly hasn't interfered with his love of the dogs or his energy levels or his general boisterous nature.

While I stuccod the power house ceiling and walls, which are now finished, the boys took Leo hiking, checking out the area. Leo has become quite attached to his new buddy, not to mention said buddy's super cool IPhone, which Leo thinks is the coolest thing thing he's ever seen. We've been trying to make Trevor feel guilty about Leo's accident on the offchance that he'll leave the phone behind out of remorse. We'll see how that works out!


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