Healthwise

The following pages will endeavour to bring together a range of information to make available both traditional and complementary medicine techniques and practices. As well as being a good source of guidance on a variety of topics, it should provide a really good read! Click on the links below including 'Neo Health' and 'Aches and Pains' to further your knowledge and gain insight into a wide range of topics.

         King’s Sutton Heritage Trust is very pleased to have this very important page sponsored by.......
                    Carl Stanley and Wendy Lines of Neo Health

A successful, local business, operating within the village for some 4 years which is very much integrated into the
life and fabric of King’s Sutton and the surrounding area. Wendy has links with Kings Sutton pre-school playgroup and the school over many years whilst Carl is associated with the King’s Sutton Football team.

Carl regularily updates his informative and often funny blog.. Aches and Pains. But be warned he is a very committed Arsenal supporter!!!

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King's Sutton Community First Responder Team (CFR)

Could you help save a life in Kings Sutton or the surrounding area?

Would you like to be part of a team that helps people when they suffer a medical emergency? Are you reliable, trustworthy, good under pressure, and able to remain calm in stressful situations?
If you have a mature outlook on life, a caring personality and can answer yes to the above questions, then your local Community First Responder Group needs YOU!!

Community First Responders (CFRs) are volunteers trained by the local ambulance service in basic life support, oxygen therapy, resuscitation and heart defibrillation. They respond to emergency calls within a 4 mile radius of their location, through the 999 system, and are dispatched by Ambulance Control to suitable incidents such as cardiac arrest, chest pains or breathing problems. An emergency ambulance is also ALWAYS dispatched – Responders do not take the place of the emergency services, but because the Responder is already in the local area they could be on the scene of the incident before the ambulance crew arrives. Every second counts when someone suffers a serious illness, or a life threatening emergency. By being in the community with the right equipment, Responders can make a real difference where early treatment is vital.

Responding requires time, effort and dedication, and can be stressful and demanding, but it is a worthwhile and rewarding experience. Training takes place over 4 days (usually 2 consecutive weekends), and you will also be required to undergo an Enhanced Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check carried out by East Midlands Ambulance Service.

If you are interested and could offer some regular time to the CFR group, are over 18, have a clean driving licence, regular access to a car, and are reasonably physically fit please contact Elaine Cross on kingssuttoncfr@gmail.com for more information.

Horton Hospital is to get its own Dialysis Unit by Christmas; allowing kidney patients to have vital treatment nearer to home. (Details extracted from Banbury Guardian dtd 14th July 2011)


            Bob Tustain, left, donated one of his kidneys to his brother Don, right, 30 years ago.
                          (Both of the brothers were born and grew up in King's Sutton)

Whilst Don was being treated via dialysis his prognosis did not look good and he was advised that a transplant could extend his life and save him. It was thought, at the time, that this operation would give him an extra 5 years.

One of his younger brothers, Bob, immediately and selflessly offered a kidney. He had no reservations and following months of tests he turned out to be a perfect match. The operation was successful.

Don left the hospital before Bob and said it was like having a battery recharge. I will be forever grateful to Bob and the bond between us is very special. We hope that this story will be an inspiration to other families faced with the same situation and considering being a kidney donor.

In July this year Don and Bob celebrated their 30 year ''Anniversary'' by having a special dinner along with their wives and raised a toast to the lifesaving transplant.

Don recently said...''I was one of the earlier transplant cases in Oxfordshire back in 1981 at the Churchill
Hospital, Oxford.'' He also paid tribute to the wonderful specialists and staff who were amongst the pioneers of transplant surgery in the 70's and 80's as well as the current staff.

He concluded by saying that ''I have quarterly checkups but have been lucky to live a full and happy life''

You too can assist and as Don has said....''There are many people awaiting transplants and by carrying a Donor Card, thousands of people could be given the same chance of a new life.''

Call Now or Click on the Logo to see how easy it is to register to become a donor.

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BACK IN HER DAY (They didn’t have this GREEN thing) but are we any better off or Healthier!

In the line at the shop, the cashier told the elderly woman that plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. The woman apologised to her and explained......

“We didn’t have the green thing back in my day”

That’s right; they didn’t have the green thing in her day.
Back then, they returned their milk bottles, coke bottles and beer bottles to the shop.
The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, using the same bottles over and over.
So they really were recycled.
But they didn’t have the green thing back in her day.

In her day they walked up stairs because they didn’t have an elevator in every shop and office building.
They walked to the grocery shop and didn’t climb into a 300 horsepower cars every time they had to go two hundred metres.
But she’s right. They didn’t have the green thing in her day.

Back then they washed the babies’ nappies because they didn’t have the throw-away kind.
They dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up to 220 volts – wind and solar power
really did dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.
But that old lady is right; they didn’t have the green thing back in her day.

Back then, they had one TV or radio in the house, not a TV in every room and the TV had a small screen the size of a plate, not a screen the size of Yorkshire. In the kitchen they blended and stirred by hand because they didn’t have electric machines to do everything for you.
When they packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, they used wadded up newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.Back then, they didn’t fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the grass. ~They used a push mower that ran on human power. They exercised by working so they didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she’s right; they didn’t have ‘the green thing’ back then.

(Reprinted from the June 2011 issue of the King's Sutton Times)