AFVOA Newletters of Year 2006

Page 47 of 77 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 five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far. What to do??? You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that conducted the course did not 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, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness. What to do? ANSWER: Do not panic, but start 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. 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. 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!!! Don’t ever think that you are not prone to heart attack as your age is less than 25 or 30. Nowadays due to the change in the life style, heart attack is found among people of all age groups. - Courtesy General Hospital, Rochester. 40. ECHS Membership. Some of our Veterans may not have become members of ECHS till now. This is only to remind them all that the AGI (MBS) will wind up wef 31 Mar 2008. The equivalent schemes in the Navy & AF have already been closed. The last date for the retired officers to become members of ECHS has been fixed as 31 Mar 2008 after which they will not be entertaining applications. Affected Officers are therefore advised to become members at the earliest considering the advantages. Laugh it Off! The Net worth of senior citizens: What with silver hair, gold teeth, platinum stents in arteries and pacemaker on heart, stones in kidney /gall bladder, gas reserves in stomach and lead in feet, the senior citizens are indeed worth a fortune! - The HINDU 17 Jun 2006 Recently, a group of art experts were studying the Mona Lisa. Gradually, one by one, they started sneezing. Some of them had watery eyes and some had a fever. It turned out that they had contracted the mysterious “Da Vinci Cold”. - Jim Porto in Reader’s Digest. Stingy Abe was on his deathbed. “Is my wife here?” he asked. “Yes I’m here next to you,” she answered. “And the kids?” “We’re here, Daddy,” the youngest answered. “Is the rest of the family here too?” “Around your bed,” his wife assured him. At that, Abe sits up and