Something useful

[Jim Gillespie <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeremy,

    I hope that this gets to you.  I know you've changed your email
address but I can't remember what to!

    This was posted to the Sprint ST list today - does it make any
sense?

    See you,

                Jim

AnnBonne@xxxxxxx writes:
 > Something none bike but worthwhile knowing for those lonely rides in
 > the wilderness.
 > 
 >  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 you 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 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 phone and, between breaths,
 >  call for help.
 >  
 >  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) via my mate who is a charge nurse
 >  in Saudi Arabia Hospital Intensive Care Unit.
 > 
 >         Ann Bonnewell

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  gillespie.org  / -.--.    ___  long crankshaft thrashing around like a
                _\_  ~-.`--'_.-' crazed conger eel in a bath of treacle.
               / /\\    \--'_ \\ 
 '99 Sprint ST \__/ `---'  \__/                         -- Neil Ronketti


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