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IMPORTANT, Please Read - What A Heart Attack Feels Like For A Woman
11/7/2008 9:59:59 PM
Hello My Dear Adland Pro Family,

I am not sure if you have read this before or not, but I wanted
to make sure that this gets passed around as it is very important
to know, especially for us women.  It could save someones life.

I know, it is really not something to make you smile, but I have nowhere else to post this. 

>> To all my friends I e-mail please read very carefully 
>> and plant this like you would a flower in your mind. 
>> Heart burn or indigestion is a warning to you. Take 
>> heed. 
>> 
>> I am an ER nurse and this is the best description of 
>> this event that I have ever heard. 
>> 
>> Please read, pay attention, and send it on! 
>> 
>> Diane K. in AZ 
>> 
>> 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 and 
>> 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 
>> 
>> 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 this time drink a 
>> 
>> glass of water to hasten its progress down to the 
>> stomach. 
>> 
>> This was my initial sensation - the only trouble was, 
>> 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 
>> 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 dialed 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 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 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 who are so important 
>> in my life 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 asprin. 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 instead 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 Doctor 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). 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 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 least one life. 
>> 
>> **Please be a true friend and send this article to 
>> all your friends (male & female) you care about!** 

God Bless!
Marion
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Re: IMPORTANT, Please Read - What A Heart Attack Feels Like For A Woman
11/7/2008 10:17:02 PM
Dear Marion:

Thank you....Thank You.....Thank YOU!


I intend to post this to our blog tomorrow Success Health News.


You did a good deed today and while people may not laugh as a joke, I know that for myself I am smiling at what you have done.



Best Regards,

Diane
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Re: IMPORTANT, Please Read - What A Heart Attack Feels Like For A Woman
11/7/2008 10:43:52 PM
Hi Diane,

You are most welcome! 

I am happy to hear that you will post this information on your blog.  That is so wonderful.  What a neat blog you have!  I took the test and rated a 39. 

The more people that see this the better. 

God Bless!
Marion




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Re: IMPORTANT, Please Read - What A Heart Attack Feels Like For A Woman
11/7/2008 10:48:47 PM

Hi Marion and Thank You for sharing this information with us. It is very scary but we need to know. I will post a forum and share this with my other friends as well. The more that reads this the better.

Your Friend,

Shelly Hargis

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Re: IMPORTANT, Please Read - What A Heart Attack Feels Like For A Woman
11/8/2008 12:17:08 AM

WOW!

Thank you Marion! Here are all details!

Have a great weekend!

Branka

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