A heart attack can happen to anyone. 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.

HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE

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, and the cough

must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the

chest.

Deep breaths 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 get to a hospital.

Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could save their

lives!