Yesterday he told us his wife woke up with severe pain, he called an ambulance and she had atrial fibrillation. He called and ambulance and she is recovering well.
Gord collects for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. He always gives us good information, but this email has been circulating and even if you read it before, read it again. It could save your life.
How to survive a
heart attack if alone:
1. Let’s say it’s
7.25pm and you’re going home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on
the job.
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 who taught the course did not tell you how to
perform it on yourself.
CALL 911, UNLOCK
YOUR DOOR,. CHEW AN ASPIRIN. Then,
6. 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. Rather than
sending jokes, please... contribute by forwarding this mail which can save a
person’s life.
12. If this
message comes around you... more than once… please don’t get irritated... You
should instead, be happy that you have many friends who care about you &
keeps reminding you how to deal with a Heart attack.
