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HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE


Let’s say it’s 6.15pm and you’re going 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 drag 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. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself..!!

NOW HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE…

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, 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 perhaps buy precious time to get themselves to a phone and dial 911.

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(Source: kellyjacobsbooks)

But I don’t want to call him.

We read Poetry
In a cafe
That had no back wall
So you could see
Blue meet blue
Framed by boats
And tan bodies
Our coffee sat
amidst our words
As we softly recited
The sections that moved us.

We drank whiskey
In a scuzzy bar
I could never remember
The name of
You taught me how
To lose at pool
And you lay your straw
In the ashtray.

The first time we met
We sat knee to knee
And spoke in our own language
I can’t remember
The translation
Because the root of it
Was soaked in gin.
But I remember later
The calm and the loud
The hello and the good bye
And the constant soundtrack
Of:
Modest mouse
Rachmaninov
Alicia keys
And whatever else we found at the flea market.

Now I’ve gotten you out of my brain for a while.

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