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Vol. 4 No. 10, October 2012 Copyright 2012 by Wolf
J. Rinke 1. NEW CPE--HOT OFF THE PRESS INSIGHT BREAK 1. NEW CPE--HOT OFF THE PRESS
For more information and customer comments, click here. 2. NUTRITION NEWS YOU CAN USE 3. HOW TO SAVE UP TO 16% ON CPEs 4. what You can learn from a NURSE'S HEART ATTACK EXPERIENCE “I had a heart attack at about 10:30 pm with NO prior exertion; NO prior emotional trauma that one would suspect might have brought it on. I was sitting all snugly and warm on a cold evening, with my purring cat in my lap, reading an interesting story my friend had sent me, and actually thinking, 'A-A-h, this is the life, all cozy and warm in my soft, cushy Lazy Boy with my feet propped up. A moment later, I felt that awful sensation of indigestion, when you've been in a hurry and grabbed a bite of sandwich and washed it down with a dash of water, and that hurried bite seems to feel like you've swallowed a golf ball going down the esophagus in slow motion and it is most uncomfortable. You realize you shouldn't have gulped it down so fast and needed to chew it more thoroughly and drink a glass of water to hasten its progress down to the stomach. This was my initial sensation--the only trouble was that I hadn't taken a bite of anything since about 5:00 pm. After it seemed to subside, the next sensation was like little squeezing motions that seemed to be racing up my SPINE (hind-sight, it was probably my aorta spasms), gaining speed as they continued racing up and under my sternum (breast bone, where one presses rhythmically when administering CPR). This fascinating process continued on into my throat and branched out into both jaws. 'AHA!! NOW I stopped puzzling about what was happening -- we all have read and/or heard about pain in the jaws being one of the signals of an MI happening, haven't we? I said aloud to myself and the cat, ‘Dear God, I think I'm having a heart attack!’ I lowered the foot rest dumping the cat from my lap, started to take a step and fell on the floor instead. I thought to myself, ‘If this is a heart attack, I shouldn't be walking into the next room where the phone is or anywhere else ... but, on the other hand, if I don't, nobody will know that I need help, and if I wait any longer I may not be able to get up in a moment.’ I pulled myself up with the arms of the chair, walked slowly into the next room and dialed the Paramedics ... I told her [the dispatcher] I thought I was having a heart attack due to the pressure building under the sternum and radiating into my jaws. I didn't feel hysterical or afraid, just stating the facts. She said she was sending the Paramedics over immediately, asked if the front door was near to me, and if so, to un-bolt the door and then lie down on the floor where they could see me when they came in. I unlocked the door and then laid down on the floor as instructed and lost consciousness, as I don't remember the medics coming in, their examination, lifting me onto a gurney or getting me into their ambulance, or hearing the call they made to St. Jude ER on the way, but I did briefly awaken when we arrived and saw that the radiologist was already there in his surgical blues and cap, helping the medics pull my stretcher out of the ambulance. He was bending over me asking questions (probably something like 'Have you taken any medications?') but I couldn't make my mind interpret what he was saying, or form an answer, and nodded off again, not waking up until the Cardiologist and partner had already threaded the teeny angiogram balloon up my femoral artery into the aorta and into my heart where they installed two side by side stints to hold open my right coronary artery. I know it sounds like all my thinking and actions at home must have taken at least 20-30 minutes before calling the paramedics, but actually it took perhaps 4-5 minutes before the call, and both the fire station and St. Jude are only minutes away from my home, and my Cardiologist was already to go to the OR in his scrubs and get going on restarting my heart (which had stopped somewhere between my arrival and the procedure) and installing the stints. 'Why have I written all of this to you with so much detail? Because I want all of you who are so important in my life to know what I learned firsthand: 1. Be aware that something very different is happening in your body, not the usual men's symptoms but inexplicable things happening (until my sternum and jaws got into the act). It is said that many more women than men die of their first (and last) MI because they didn't know they were having one and commonly mistake it as indigestion, take some Maalox or other anti-heartburn preparation and go to bed, hoping they'll feel better in the morning when they wake up ... which doesn't happen. My female friends, your symptoms might not be exactly like mine, so I advise you to call the Paramedics if ANYTHING is unpleasantly happening that you've not felt before. It is better to have a 'false alarm' visitation than to risk your life guessing what it might be! 2. Note that I said 'Call the Paramedics.' And if you can, take an aspirin. Ladies, TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE! 3. Don't assume it couldn't be a heart attack because you have a normal cholesterol count. Research has discovered that a cholesterol elevated reading is rarely the cause of an MI (unless it's unbelievably high and/or accompanied by high blood pressure). MIs are usually caused by long-term stress and inflammation in the body, which dumps all sorts of deadly hormones into your system to sludge things up. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know the better chance we could survive.” Source: This was forwarded to me by John Guynn, Supervisor, Nutrition Services, Methodist Hospital, Sacramento, CA, with the admonition to share it with as many people as possible in order to help save lives. A cardiologist maintains that we'll save at least one life if everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people. So please feel free to forward this eNewsletter to all your friends (male & female) you care about! For more valuable information about Rosie O’Donnell’s heart attack and women’s heart attack symptoms please go to http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2012/08/27/rosie-odonnells-heart-attack-know-your-symptoms/, or http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/rosie-odonnells-heart-attack-a-lesson-for-women-201208225191. 5. HEAR WOLF "HOWL"--I MEAN SPEAK 6. HUMOR BREAK 7. ABOUT THE EDITOR 8. PRIVACY STATEMENT AND SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATIONWe will not make your name or e-mail address available to anyone. Period!
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