Someone might need this eventually

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HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK ALONE

If everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll
save at least one life. 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.

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this article
seemed to be 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. The cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing
sputum from deep inside the chest. And a cough must be repeated about
every
2 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 hospital. Tell as many other people as possible about this, it
could save their lives! From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via
Chapter 240s newsletter AND THE BEAT GOES ON ... (reprint from The Mended
Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response)

BE A FRIEND AND PLEASE SEND THIS ARTICLE TO AS MANY FRIENDS AS POSSIBLE

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Yes this is a chain mail sent to me, not really funny, but it could have some impact.