Posted by a friend -

When you are alone and have a heart attack, what are you going to do?

Let's say it's 5:25 pm and you're driving home after an unusually hard day's work. All of a sudden, you have chest pains. They are starting to radiate to the arm and jaw. It feels like you're being stabbed in the chest and heart. You're only a few miles away from the nearest hospital, but you don't know if you can make it.

Maybe you've taken CPR training, but the person running the course hasn't told you how to help yourself. A person who is feeling weak and whose heart is beating hard has only about ten seconds before losing consciousness. Fortunately, there are some things you can do to help yourself.

Cough repeatedly and very strongly. Take deep breaths before every cough. Coughing should be repeated every second until you arrive at the hospital or until your heart starts to beat normally. Deep breathing gives oxygen to your lungs and coughing movements boost the heart and blood circulation. Heart pressure also helps to restore a normal heartbeat. This is how heart attack victims can make it to the hospital to get treated.

You should know that women have additional and different symptoms. They rarely experience crushing chest pain or pain in the arms. They often have indigestion and tightness across the back at the bra line, plus sudden fatigue.

Passing this information along could save a life.

As I said above, this was posted by a friend - not a doctor. I have heard about the coughing and deep breathing several times, though. Of course, eating right and getting enough sleep and exercise can help to prevent a heart attack.

Coughing -
https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/heart-and-vascular-articles/can-coughing-stop-a-heart-attack

More info -
https://www.google.com/search?q=coughing+for+heart+attack&sca_esv=a32461fe05b6239e&sxsrf=ACQVn08j465Rqyh6qnH3TcNgjTjlsBrtGQ%3A1710767910743&ei=Jj_4ZYj4LNmp5NoPw-SyqA0&ved=0ahUKEwiIo_OM8_2EAxXZFFkFHUOyDNUQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=coughing+for+heart+attack&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiGWNvdWdoaW5nIGZvciBoZWFydCBhdHRhY2tI_RdQAFi1DHAAeACQAQCYAVugAfEEqgEBOLgBA8gBAPgBAZgCBaACtQPCAgYQABgHGB7CAggQABgIGAcYHsICChAAGAgYBxgeGArCAggQABgFGAcYHsICCxAAGIAEGIoFGIYDwgIIEAAYCBgeGA2YAwCSBwM0LjGgB4km&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

Related - a friend drives a big concrete truck. He suspected that he was having a heart attack, so he drove to a nearby hospital. He got there just in time, and he's fine now.

Look up Ed Deming. He was an American consultant who could not get Detroit to listen to him back in the 1950s. They had no interest in quality.

Detroit's goal was to sell you a new car as often as possible. In the 1950s, designs changed every year, like clothing styles, and in a major way, every three years. They wanted DISPOSABLE cars that would rust on the showroom floor, like the ultimate example of that, the Chevy Vega.

Ed went to Japan. He was responsible for many of the concepts of engineering the manufacturing process in ways that would improve consistency, quality, cost, production pace, product reliability, and other characteristics that lead to customer satisfaction. It paid off like crazy!

At least some of the Japanese car manufacturers embarked on continuous improvement journeys that continue today. The first Lexus LS 400 back in 1990 was so "over-built" — reliable and dependable — that it immediately swept market share away from all the other luxury car manufacturers. The Prius has been so good, it's still the benchmark by which all other hybrid vehicles are measured, as the Consumer Reports April issue points out once again.

Japan's goal is to make cars that last and last, passing from owner to owner. A model run might last five or six years, with only minor changes in colors or features. By the time I bought my 2009 Prius in 2008, it was thoroughly debugged and solid. My son would still be driving it if a drunk moron in a pickup hadn't run off the road at 4:00 AM and crashed into it. My wife's old 2009 Prius is still going, at 210,000 miles, being driven daily by our other twin.

The appeal is not fashion flash, but sensible transportation.