Hello all,
 
I am not a pass along e-mail kind of person  but when it is related to health.... you just never know when it might help  someone.  Please read the following which was sent to me and I am now  forwarding it onto you.  Hope you never have to use this technique of  course but education to situations always helps.
 
Much love, 
Robyn
 
----- Original Message -----  
From: Kate Powers   
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 6:26 AM
Subject: [Fwd: Fwd: Fw: Health Information]
Read  this!!!!!!  

Subject: Fwd: Fw: Health Information 
Date:  Tue, 21 Aug 2001 16:08:05 EDT 
From: DOCGERALD@aol.com  
To:  DOCGERALD@aol.com   

Subject: Fw: Health Information 
Date:  Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:57:39 -0700 
From: "MWright"  <mcwsac@jps.net> 
To: "Clyde &  Margaret Zirbel" <busmar@montana.com>,  
     "Tom Wright" <tjwright@innernet.net>,  "Paul Wright" <PWrigh01@aol.com>,  
     "Harlan/Sue Wright"  <WrightRes@aol.com>, 
     "Erin  Wright" <erinchele@yahoo.com>, 
      "Annette Marie" <annettemari@juno.com>, "BB Hill"  <bboda@ns.net>, 
     "Dalene  Bartholomew" <daetrip@aol.com>,  
     "Karen Houseworth"  <khouse@chw.edu>, 
     "Kim White"  <kimberlywhite@juno.com>, 
      "Lisa Karkoski" <landj.karkoski@worldnet.att.net>,  
     "Marie Zold" <lmzold@aol.com>,  
     "Stephanaie Lauer"  <stephaniel@rcsis.com>, 
     "Sue  DiPaola" <smdsac@cs.com>, "Deb Grimm"  <jdgrimm@bellsouth.net>, 
      "Judy/Dick Goodell" <jgoodell@calweb.com>,  
     "Fr. Michel Gagnon"  <frmichel@sanluisreyparish.org>,  
     "Gerald Flottman"  <DOCGERALD@aol.com>, 
      "Dick/Barb Crippen" <Ruth.Allen.Sacto@worldnet.att.net>,  
     "James Corbett"  <JCorbett@UDEL.edu>, 
      "Bonnie/Ray Burnell" <bonnieburnell@yahoo.com> 
Dear Friends,
This was shared throughout a group from our church and sounds like
worthwhile, simple info.  Can't hurt to try it if the need arises!
Love and Blessings, Margaret and JohnHEART ATTACK SELF HELPThis is NOT a chain letter.
If everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll
save at least one 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. What can you do?
You've been trained in CPR but the guy that taught the course neglected
to
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, this
article
seemed to be in order. Without help, the person whose heart stops
beating
properly 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.
Deep 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,
this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.
Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could save their
lives!
>From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240s
newsletter
AND THE BEAT GOES ON ... (reprint from The Mended Hearts,
Inc.publication, Heart Response)
BE A FRIEND AND PLEASE SEND THIS ARTICLE TO AS MANY FRIENDS AS
POSSIBLE
Linda Petersen
Sprint - BISD Sacramento
916/636-6149
916/636-6522 (fax)