>>THIS WAS WORTH PASSING ON - PLEASE REMEMBER IT.
>>
>>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 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 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!
>>
>>From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240's
>>newsletter, AND THE BEAT GOES ON ... (reprint from The Mended
>>Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response)