1 Let’s say it’s 7.25 pm and you’re going home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job.
2 You’re really tired, upset and frustrated.
3 Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up in to your jaw. You are only about five km from the hospital nearest your home.
4 Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far.
5 You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.
Or the Emergency Number for YOUR country
6 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.
7 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.
8 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.
9 Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!
10 A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail, kindly sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we’ll save at least one life.
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
I been told that taking an aspirin with help as well. But your post is something I didn’t know. Thanks Chris
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Good to know, and I will store this info away in the little gray cells I still have. But yes, the symptoms for women can be very different, We are a strange bunch! But we need some info for us, too!
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OK Noelle 😀
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Symptoms for women are quite different than the typical symptoms for men. You should do a second blog post with that information. Go Red for Women is a great resource
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Thanks Pamela – I’ll check that out 😀
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Very good post, Ape! I had heard of the coughing thing, but i’ve never seen these how-to details. Thanks Chris. Hugs.
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Welcome Teagan 😀
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Great Post … . Thanks Chris.
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Welcome Danny, now you can explain it to Andrew 😀
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I believe in England it is 999. Or 0118999881999119725 3. Thanks for the info. Always good to remember the signs.
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It’s 999 Josh…
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Yeah, IT Crowd reference.
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Scares me! Wonder why womens symptoms are different to mens, and if that is the case, why we are only ever warned about mens symptoms?
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Great question but I don’t know the answer 😦
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This is valuable information. Symptoms of heart attacks in women can be far different. Sometimes the pain is very vague, like indigestion, lower back ache. Many women do not experience pain in the chest or left arm. Even vague symptoms should be taken seriously. Great post!
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I didn’t know that Terri, thanks for the information…
Will the same actions apply do you know? 🙂
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That is a great question. I don’t see why not. The biggest problem with women is we tend to shrug off the vague pain as nothing. This happened to me a few years ago. My daughter rushed me to the ER and as soon as i walked in and said the magic words “I’m having signs and symptoms of a heart attack” I was inside an on a gurney in seconds. It ended up being nothing–just a series of strange symptoms that manifested all at once. But better to look stupid in the ER than look stupid in a coffin.
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Absolutely 🙂
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Interesting…
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