Testing My Own INR
I’ve now been testing my own INR for a couple of weeks now.
Except for my problems with the manual, my biggest problem has been pricking my finger with the Softclix device, to get a drop of blood to put on the machine.
In the end today, I resorted to taking the top off the device and just stabbing the tip of my finger with the lancet. I got a perfect drop of blood, which gave me a good reading with no errors.
I told Roche and they’re sending a new Softclix device.
On the other hand, I’ve had no problems with the Coaguchek device itself.
Where Are All The Women In The FTSE 100?
The Standard asked this question last night in an article. All of the usual reasons are given and never being at boardroom level in a large company, I wouldn’t know why there are so few.
i do remember though at a dinner of the Ipswich law Society many years ago, the Education Officer or something like that of the Law Society getting up and saying that looking at the statistics of legal education, that by the turn of the millennium, there wouldn’t be any good male lawyers coming through.
i don’t have the statistics, but I know quite a few exceptional female lawyers who could have done well in business. so why do exceptional women choose certain professions like law, medicine, dentistry and veterinary science, but shun others like business and engineering?
Everybody has the right to a good career and exceptional people will succeed, wherever they go. So perhaps the problem is not the selection process, but the reasons why the various groups choose their particular career path.
I was interested to see that one of the women featured is Alison Cooper, the head of Imperial Tobacco. It’s not a job I would do on ethical grounds and I’m rather surprised that a woman has decided to do it. But she does like an odd cigar. As she has two daughters, I bet she gets a bit of stick about it.
History Repeats Itself
One of the classic tales about Ted Kid Lewis, is that late one night, he was walking home through the East End, after a function and he was set upon by four thugs. As he despatched the last into the gutter, he produced his visiting card and dropped it on the attacker.
And now a group of thugs have tried to nick Amir Khan‘s Range Rover in Birmingham! It’s reported here in the Telegraph.
In this attack, the report says that there were about six thugs, but then Amir had his brother, Haroon, who is another boxer with him.
Apparently, the thugs didn’t make a complaint to the Police.
The Anonymous Widower 