Site Links










Top Posters
Dotsie 23647
chatty lady 20267
jawjaw 12025
jabber 10032
Dianne 6123
Latest Photos
car
Useable gifts!
Winter wonderland/fantasy for real
The Soap lady meets the Senator
baby chicks
Angel
Quilted Christmas Stocking
Latest Quilt
Shelter from the storm
A new life
Who's Online
0 Registered (), 159 Guests and 1 Spider online.
Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Forum Stats
3239 Members
63 Forums
16332 Topics
210704 Posts

Max Online: 409 @ 01/17/20 03:33 AM
Topic Options
#18318 - 03/28/05 05:22 AM Be Heartwise!!!-It could save your life!
Songbird Offline
Member

Registered: 06/03/04
Posts: 2830
Loc: Massachusetts, USA
A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to 10 people, you can bet that at least one life will be saved. Read this... It
could save your life!!

Let's say it's 6.15 P.M. and you're driving home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset, and
frustrated.

Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home.

Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.

HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE

[Confused] Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to
feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.

[Cool] However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and
the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest.

[Wink] A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be
beating normally again.

[Razz] Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.

[Smile] Tell as many people as possible about this. It could save their lives!!

Top
#18319 - 03/28/05 07:58 PM Re: Be Heartwise!!!-It could save your life!
smilinize Offline
Member

Registered: 11/08/03
Posts: 3512
Loc: outer space
Thanks Songbird. That is excellent information.

They also say take an asprin to thin the blood if you think you might be having a heart attack or stroke. Thinning the blood can help prevent clot formation and improve blood flow to a diseased area of the heart or brain.
I put a few baby asprin in my car and in my husband's car. If either of us experience heart attack symptoms we can chew a couple of those baby asprin on the way to the hospital then hold the container in our hand so they will know we took them.
I was once with a friend who had a heart attack. On the way to the hospital I gave him asprin. They said it may have saved his life. Wish I had known about the coughing.
smile

Top
#18320 - 03/29/05 08:19 AM Re: Be Heartwise!!!-It could save your life!
Dianne Offline
Queen of Shoes

Registered: 05/24/04
Posts: 6123
Loc: Arizona
What valuable information to know. Thanks so much! Since my husband works away and I'm not getting any younger, you never know when I might need this.

Top
#18321 - 03/29/05 08:31 AM Re: Be Heartwise!!!-It could save your life!
Vicki M. Taylor Offline
Member

Registered: 01/06/03
Posts: 2196
Loc: Tampa, FL
Very good advice, especially about the aspirin. I think I've heard about the coughing before, but it's always great to be reminded.

Top



NABBW.com | Forum Testimonials | Newsletter Sign Up | View Our Newsletter | Advertise With Us
About the Founder | Media Room | Contact BWS
Resources for Women | Boomer Books | Recent Reads | Boomer Links | Our Voices | Home

Boomer Women Speak
9672 W US Highway 20, Galena, IL 61036 • info@boomerwomenspeak.com • 1-877-BOOMERZ

Boomer Women Speak cannot be held accountable for any personal relationships or meetings face-to-face that develop because of interaction with the forums. In addition, we cannot be held accountable for any information posted in Boomer Women Speak forums.

Boomer Women Speak does not represent or endorse the reliability of any information or offers in connection with advertisements,
articles or other information displayed on our site. Please do your own due diligence when viewing our information.

Privacy PolicyTerms of UseDisclaimer

Copyright 2002-2019 • Boomer Women SpeakBoomerCo Inc. • All rights reserved