Dear all,

I got the piece below from a colleague and it seems a real first class
First Aid. Please distribute as widely as you can.

Thanks.

Have a good day and bye 4Now, KB Jobe.

Thought I should share this with you ...

Let's say it's 6:15 p.m. and you're driving home alone 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 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. A breath and a cough must be repeated about
every two seconds without let up until help arrives, or until the
heart is to begin 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.

BE A FRIEND AND PLEASE SEND THIS ARTICLE TO AS MANY FRIENDS AND FAMILY
AS POSSIBLE IF IT HELPS JUST ONE PERSON SOMETIME IT WILL BE WORTH
READING AND SENDING.



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