Heart Attacks

[CHRISK]

Heart Attack Procedure:


My sister-in-law sent this to me - she's an RN.

> >>>>>Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line. You may never
> >>>> have the first >chest pain during the course of a heart attack.
>
> >>>>>Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. 60%
> >>>> of people who >have a heart attack while they are asleep do not
> >>>> wake up. >
> >>>>>The pain in the jaw happened to me and woke me from a sound
> >>>> sleep. >
> >>>>>I was one of the fortunate ones. Trust me when I tell you
> >>>> it's pain >unlike anything you've ever experienced before.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Given a choice between natural child birth and a heart
> >>>> attack, >pain-wise; it's much easier to have a baby. Let's be
> >>>> careful and be >aware. The more we know.........
> >>>>>
> >>>>>A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it
> >>>> to 10 >people, you can be sure that we'll save at least one
life.

> >>>> Read this... >It could save your life!!
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Let's say it's 6.15pm and you're driving home (alone of
> >>>> course), after >an unusually hard day on the job. You're 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
> >>>>>
> >>>>>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. Tell as many >other people as possible about this. >
> >>>>>It could save their lives!! BE A FRIEND AND PLEASE SEND
> >>>> THIS ARTICLE TO >AS MANY FRIENDS AS POSSIBLE

[scotgirl]

great post chrisk ..great advice xxx

[diogenese58]

You should always pay attention to your body when you have pain or you'r "just not feeling right". I was at work and just started feeling crappy and went home. My wifewanted me to go to the hospital and after sufficent nagging I went. They ran all kinds of test and pronounced me healthy as an overweight former smoker could be but they wanted to run one more test in the morning and would like to keep me for observation overnight. The test they wanted to run was a treadmill stress test where they shoot an isotope into your vein - take some pics have you do the treadmill shoot another isotope into your vein and do the pics all over again. I reluctantly agreed

The next morning I went down to the testing room - they shot the isotope in and I laid down - I had a heart attack while he was running the pics. I have been shot and i would rather be shot again than have that kind of pain. Hurt doesn't even begin to describe how it feels. I was lucky - I was in the best place in the world to have a heart attack (if you are going to have one). The Dr. said that I would have had about a 20% chance of surviving if I had been at home (5 min away from the hospital) and my chaces of surviving if on the road would have been so small as to be non existant.

At that time I started paying attention to what my body was trying to tell me and 3 months later I had bypass surgery (also something not real pleasent).

Since then I have lost about 60 lbs (have another 15 to 20 to go) have started excersizing and enjoying life. I refuse to let stress rule me anymore. and if there is anything you get out of this message let it be that you:

LISTEN to YOUR BODY and DON'T LET STRESS RULE YOU!!