Please read this then pass it on. It might save someone's life...maybe
even your own!!! A cardiologist says it's the truth!
Let's say
it's 6.15 pm 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.
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. 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. 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. 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.
From Health Cares, Rochester General
Hospital via Chapter 240's newsletter, "AND THE BEAT GOES ON..."(reprint
from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response)
"If you
judge people, you have no time to love them."
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