[guide.chat] FW: Female heart attack worth reading.... who knows, it may help you or a friend one day
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Subject: FW: Female heart attack worth reading.... who knows, it may help you
or a friend one day
> > NURSE'S HEART ATTACK EXPERIENCE
> >
> > This has been passed on from an ER nurse and is the best
> > description of this event that she had ever heard. Please read, pay
> > attention, and send it on!
> >
> > FEMALE HEART ATTACKS
> >
> > I was aware that female heart attacks are different, but
> > this is the best description I've ever read.
> >
> > Women and heart attacks (Myocardial Infarction). Did you
> > know that women rarely have the same dramatic symptoms that men have
> > when experiencing heart attack ... you know, the sudden stabbing pain
> > in the chest, the cold sweat, grabbing the chest & dropping to the
> > floor that we see in the movies. Here is the story of one woman's
> > experience with a heart attack.
> >
> > I had a heart attack at about 10 :30 PM with NO prior
> > exertion, NO prior emotional trauma that one would suspect might've
> > brought it on.
> > I was sitting all snugly & 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 cosy 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 oesophagus 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 this time 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 p.m.
> >
> > 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 spasming), 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 footrest 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 moment.
> >
> > I pulled myself up with the arms of the chair, walked
> > slowly into the next room and dialled the Paramedics .. I told her 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 unbolt the door and then lie down on the floor where they
> > could see me when they came in.
> >
> > I unlocked the door and then lay 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 b
> > riefly awaken when we arrived and saw that the
> > Cardiologist 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 2 side by side stents 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 stents.
> >
> > Why have I written all of this to you with so much detail?
> > Because I want all of you to know what I learned first hand.
> >
> > 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!
> > Do NOT try to drive yourself to the ER you are a hazard to
> > others on the road.
> > Do NOT have your panicked husband who will be speeding and
> > looking anxiously at what's happening with you in
> > stead of the road.
> > Do NOT call your doctor -- he doesn't know where you live
> > and if it's at night you won't reach him anyway, and if it's daytime,
> > his assistants (or answering service) will tell you to call the
> > Paramedics. He doesn't carry the equipment in his car that you need to
> > be saved! The Paramedics do, principally OXYGEN that you need ASAP.
> > Your Dr. will be notified later.
> >
> > 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). MI's 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 in there.
> > 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.
> >
> > A cardiologist says, if everyone who gets this mail sends
> > it to 10 people, you can be sure that we'll save at l
> > east one life.
> >
> > **Please be a true friend and send this article to all
> > your friends (male & female) you care about!**
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