How to Survive A Heart Attack When Alone ( Locked) (36)

In order to make up to you for my part in our (Erika’s) April Fools’ joke, I’d like to share some info on surviving a heart attack.


How to Survive a Heart Attack When Alone

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 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 5 blocks from the nearest hospital. 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 you the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.

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, from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every 2 seconds without letting 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.

I’ll also tell you that my uncle had a heart attack, alone, when driving. He pounded his chest until he got home, his kids gave him an aspirin and called paramedics and he survived.

Having said that, let me also say that when my mother had her fatal heart attack, she did not have any of the normal symptoms. We thought it was a bad stomach virus and the doctor told me that with women, a heart attack often presents itself with stomach problems.

Hidding now....

That's not a very funny April Fool's joke, you know.

You better hide.

This isn't the joke thread

..It sure is not...i lost my best friend to a heart attack aged 40...the April fools joke was in bad taste..

My father died of one in november, not that he was much of a father, but I agree, it was in really bad taste...

So..... is this a joke or not??