Are there any times quite as frustrating as those times when you are tossing and turning in your bed but simply can’t go to sleep? We’ve tried everything we can think of but are still awake; I’ve experienced this many times and now get really wound up about it.

How many times have we lain there, eyes closed, willing sleep to come when we realise there is light coming into the room? The sunrise heralds the arrival of a new day, and another night is over, one in which we haven’t had the luxury of any sleep at all to recharge our batteries.

This is happening do regularly now that we can’t remember what a good night’s sleep feels like. Everyone has suggested something different, and everyone has been equally useless. What can we do to get some sleep?

I try not to take any kind of drug to get me to sleep, but if you are finding that your sleeplessness is lasting for a few nights in a row and you are dead on your feet, try something like Simply Sleep. This product has good reviews and really seems to help to bring on the sleep that refuses to come naturally.

Reading in bed tends to be a good one to help you drop off. As you are warm and comfortable and the light is dimmed, you should find the words blurring together and your eyes unable to focus.

You should try and tip the odds in your favor by getting the most mind numbingly boring piece of written work that you can find. This usually does the job, but on odd occasions that is hasn’t, I may have learned something interesting!

The main point of this exercise is distraction. As you are focusing fully on your book, you aren’t thinking about sleep. This takes me nicely to my last method.

Distraction is the easiest method of inducing sleep that you can do for yourself. Think about something, anything, except sleep. When you keep telling yourself that you must go to sleep, you are actually talking yourself out of it. Ok, this may sound strange, but trust me, it does work.

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Ever thought about what you would do when you end higher education or a change of job? Ever thought about what it would be like to be a radiographer? Well read on. The world has a lack of radiographers. The United Nations have given one day annually, 8th November, to World Radiography Day.

Particularly in the UK, the Government are looking at ways of raising the status of what it is to be a radiographer so as to make it an attractive career opportunity. Ninety per cent of diagnostic procedures involve the services of a radiographer. The delay in the medical chain of diagnostics means a hold-up in dispensing medical care to the patient.

In an effort to swell the radiography ranks, the Society and College of Radiographers are putting the spotlight on the profession with a special award for Radiographer of the Year. The House of Commons, the Parliament building, will host the award formalities.

The profile of radiographers is to receive a new boost, as author George Korankye, himself a radiographer, has penned a fictional book based on the real life events of the tragic Dunblane incident from 1996 when 16 school children and a teacher lost their lives in an unprovoked attack.

Never before has the character of a radiographer featured in a work of fiction as the central lead figure. “I Can See Clearly Now the Rain is Gone” had its title inspired by the song of the same title from the celebrated songster Johnny Nash.

The “faction” book of factual events from a radiographer’s point of view are seamlessly blended and revolve around the fictional Bonnyholly Hospital, which serves a picturesque small town in Scotland.

The Society and College of Radiographers has instituted a Radiographer of the Year Award in an effort to highlight the profession’s profile. Its Chief Executive Richard Evans says to the author George Korankye, “…We should be glad to help with disseminating news about the book when it is released…. I agree that there has been a long standing desire within the profession to gain a better public appreciation of what we do. I hope that your book will succeed in meeting this need….”

A division of radiography that is mysterious to the public is Forensic Radiography. Other procedures radiographers are engaged in are: Ultrasound, CT and MRI scans Nuclear Medicine, Bone Density, Endoscopies, Cardiac surgery and Dental examinations.

In the operating theatre radiographers are necessary for urology and orthopaedic procedures. Forensic Radiography is another branch unknown to the public.

On a didactic note, archaeologists, historians and anthropologists have exploited the diagnostic talents of radiographers in unearthing more about our ancestors by x-raying mummies, tombs, etc without breaching caskets. Anonymously to the public, radiographers take on research in universities and non academic amenities.

Want to find out more about “I Can See Clearly Now the Rain is Gone”, and see if a career in radiography is for you. Also visit the author’s site, George Korankye, on how to choose the best career for your needs.