A safety tip

OH, Paul, keeps the verge alongside our road cut for the mums and kiddies walking to school (plus he's slightly OCD about order ). 
 The adjoining  hedge is full of prickly things too. He scrabbles about under the hawthorn and other hedges keeping the couch grass and other weeds at bay.  He is also on anticoagulation.  So when he is scrabbling anywhere he inevitability gets stabbed by thorns and spikes which draw profuse blood andcause bruises.

He's bought himself a kevlar forearm protector.  It looks daft but might keep the blood at bay

https://www.thesafetysupplycompany.co.uk...-kksl.html

Does Paul have regular INR checks Jen?

Does Paul have regular INR checks Jen?

No Danny, he doesn't need them as he's on a NOAC apixaban.  He didn't have heart surgery only atrial fibrillation so is suitable for NOAC. I believe with surgery, you aren't suitable because there is no reversing agent like there is for warfarin.  My pal's hubby is on the warfarin and sometimes it's a right old faff to get the INR levels correct.

Does Paul have regular INR checks Jen?

No Danny, he doesn't need them as he's on a NOAC apixaban.  He didn't have heart surgery only atrial fibrillation so is suitable for NOAC. I believe with surgery, you aren't suitable because there is no reversing agent like there is for warfarin.  My pal's hubby is on the warfarin and sometimes it's a right old faff to get the INR levels correct.

Good luck to him

I have AF and have had surgery for a mechanical valve so am on warfarin. Faff is the right word, had a test this morning, INR climbing so another juggle of the dosage

Reading the above makes me grateful for how I am, today I was pulling out about 15ft. of dead clematis growth from a fence and have finished up with as many cuts and scratches on my arms, and had just mentioned to OH that I seem to bleed more than bruise nowadays