Household Hints

What you do when you're alone
and have a heart attack?

From Rochester General Hospital

You are driving home, alone. 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?

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this article seems 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....

(Excerpts from the Mended Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response)

Even MILD dehydration will slow down metabolism as much as 3%.

One glass of water shuts down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a University of Washington study.

Lack of water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.

Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.

A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page.

Drinking 5 glasses of water daily, decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer.

Are you drinking the amount of water you should every day?

Forget the photo albums. You're too far behind to bother. I recommend you get yourself acid-free photo boxes. Get a few that have the capacity to store 1,000 photos or more inside.

Many come with index dividers, but you can always make your own. Come up with a few broad categories and label your index dividers, put the dividers in your photo box, pick up each photo one by one, and simply sort each into the appropriate section. You don't have to be really strict here. Just get them into some sort of order, perhaps by child, or time period.

As you come across photos that are blurry or not very good, get rid of them. Pass on duplicates to friends or relatives, or give them to your kids.

Sort for at least 10 minutes each day, until you get through all of your old photos. Then, be sure to file new photos into your photo boxes immediately.

AND WE DRINK THIS STUFF!

FYI: The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about four days. To carry Coca Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck
must use the Hazardous
material placards reserved
for Highly Corrosive materials.
The distributors of coke have
been using it to clean the
engines of their trucks for
about 20 years!

Drink up!?