Last time I gave blood the nurse said ‘you can look away now’. I told her one of us has to watch.
I came across some research published in, I think, Nursing Times, that said patients who watch while their blood is taken report a lower pain score than those who look away.  This strikes me as something of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Supermarkets have halal sections, but is there any way that I can identify meat that has not been slaughtered using halal methods? Sometimes when I but meat,particularly lamb, it looks so anaemic it must have been killed by a halal butcher.
Supermarkets have halal sections, but is there any way that I can identify meat that has not been slaughtered using halal methods? Sometimes when I but meat,particularly lamb, it looks so anaemic it must have been killed by a halal butcher.
As far as I'm aware, most of the meat in our shops has been bled to death - the throat is cut, severing the main blood vessels to the head, and the animal suspended by its hind legs until it dies. I think the only difference is that halal and kosher dietary laws require that the animal be fully conscious when the throat is cut; otherwise the animal is stunned first. This shouldn't affect the colour of the meat.
Still got a butchers in the village, and the meat organic, is reared on the South Downs opposite. My Grankids other Grandad, works/has shares (not his main job) on an organic/biodynamic farm, where their actually do the wassailing on Christmas Eve. Animals kindly looked after, calmly taken to slaughter. I stopped eating meat over 40 years ago. I don't have a problem with other people eating it, (married a sarf London, meat (and 2 meat) bloke. Agree about the jumbo veg, wonder what they actually do with it. I had toothache for 4 weeks, got worse at night. Went to Dentist last week VERY dental phobic, after complicated traumatic extraction by MaxFax, and following Dry Socket, had the surgery 18th December, hell over Crhistmas, not even an emergency surgery open, local Hospital doesn't "do" dental. Saw a lovelly, (in every way) young gorgeous dentist at my practice last week. Another appointment in 4 weeks
A friend's granddaughter has just started at secondary school. He's just heard that she was put into isolation because her trousers were too short. The girl (at 11) is 5 feet 5 inches and thin as a rake. Any trousers which come anywhere close to fitting her at the waist are slightly short, but only about an inch above her shoes. The school also claimed they are not 'proper school trousers' whatever they are, despite the label in the waistband saying "School range".
Probably not actually necessary to add that the school has a new head teacher who clearly wants to stamp their mark! Thankfully the child is no longer in isolation with the school having accepted the problem with getting clothes which fit properly. The underlying issue is why the parents were first contacted before putting a child who has just started at a new school into isolation for something over which the child clearly has no direct contro.
Last time I gave blood the nurse said ‘you can look away now’. I told her one of us has to watch.
I came across some research published in, I think, Nursing Times, that said patients who watch while their blood is taken report a lower pain score than those who look away.  This strikes me as something of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
By the time I'm in the donating chair, I'm normally very keen to get out of there and get on with my life (especially whilst donating during current circumstances). I don't mind the needles and watch the blood filling the bag and start all the recommended blood-pumping exercises as soon as I'm hooked up. The only thing that irritates is being forced to lie down during the process so I fight it like a toddler in a tantrum Â
I've got a big, old vein popping out, bleed quickly and don't find it at all painful making me, IMHO, the perfect customer A child with a straw should be able to successfully access the required red stuff! However, when I went to donate for the 40th time on my 40th birthday (I'm an odd chap - I loved the symmetry!), I incurred my only 'failed' donation. The 'nurse' made several attempts to get the needle in and, as I wasn't hitting the roof, got more and more aggressive. I actually suspect she went into the vein and out the other side by the end. I was waiting for the needle to emerge out of my elbowÂ
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I came across some research published in, I think, Nursing Times, that said patients who watch while their blood is taken report a lower pain score than those who look away.  This strikes me as something of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Sometimes when I but meat,particularly lamb, it looks so anaemic it must have been killed by a halal butcher.
As far as I'm aware, most of the meat in our shops has been bled to death - the throat is cut, severing the main blood vessels to the head, and the animal suspended by its hind legs until it dies. I think the only difference is that halal and kosher dietary laws require that the animal be fully conscious when the throat is cut; otherwise the animal is stunned first. This shouldn't affect the colour of the meat.
I've got a big, old vein popping out, bleed quickly and don't find it at all painful making me, IMHO, the perfect customerÂ
Anyway, enjoy your breakfast folksÂ