How to Survive a Heart Attack When Alone!

Hey there. Glad you could find time to click by today. Got an important email from my good friend Audrey in Calgary, Alberta that may save your life or that of someone you know. Pour yourself a refreshing mug of coffee and snag a virtual treat or two off the tray next to the coffeepot while I share it with you...

If I ever suffer a heart attack, I hope to God that I remember to do this!

  

1. Let’s say you’re on the way home (alone of course) after an unusually stressful day.

  

2. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated.

  

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

  

4. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far.

  

5. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself. 

6. HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE?

  

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.

  

7. 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.

  

8. 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.

 9. Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!!

10. A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail kindly sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we’ll save at least one life.

11. Please contribute by forwarding this email which can save a person’s life….

   

12. If this message comes around to you more than once please don’t get irritated – be happy that you have many friends who care about you and for being reminded of how to tackle heart attacks – AGAIN!

See ya, eh!

Bob