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10-19-2005, 06:44 PM
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Colleague across the hall drops dead
Came into the office this afternoon to find everyone huddled in the hallway. A colleague across the hall had lost consciousness and had just been rushed to the hospital. The paramedics were not able to find a pulse and he never regained consciousness. A sobering experience. He was new this semester and we had just begun to get acquainted. He was my age and gave every indication of being a fit and healthy man. He routinely rode his bike to work. Life is tenuous.
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10-19-2005, 06:52 PM
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Did anyone try CPR?
and life is like that a close 42 year old family friend who ran 7 miles a day rain or shine dropped dead in a grocery store....just like that.
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10-19-2005, 06:54 PM
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10-19-2005, 07:04 PM
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I can understand...I had a 45 year old uncle die years ago....
and get this....He was home...wife was too, she was a 20+ year RN they live 2 miles from the hospital adn across the street from the ambuance... Even with immediat CPR (he collapsed in from of my aunt adn he was at hospital in 5 minutes .......there was nothing they could do.....massive coronary.. Was never sick a day in his life ( quite literally) , had excellent blood pressure and no colesteral or heart diseise....what caused it was never found. Sometimes its just your time to go and nothing on the planet will save you when it is.
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10-19-2005, 07:07 PM
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That really gives you pause to reflect upon how transitory life really is.
I'm gonna stay on my coumadin,lopressor and digoxin!
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10-19-2005, 07:09 PM
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CPR Training kits are often available for free or can be ordered here for about $30. It's a bit easier than taking the 4 hour class:
American Heart Assoc
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10-19-2005, 07:19 PM
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I always joke with my wife that we're both 43 and have "old peoples" diseases,me with my atrial fibrillation w/aortic aneurism and my wife with her leukemia.
Funny world,ain't it?
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10-19-2005, 07:41 PM
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I'm 44 next week...
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Proud owner of .... 1971 280SE W108 1979 300SD W116 1983 300D W123 1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper 1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel 1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified) --------------------- Section 609 MVAC Certified --------------------- "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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10-19-2005, 07:42 PM
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Take the CPR courses, I've rescued two people in civilian life one at a wedding and the other in a grocery store parking lot....and they both survived. They have mouth condoms that will fit on your keychain I didn't have one in either event and rescue breathing on a drunk 50 year old man isn't fun and the other was an old lady with teeth problems
 I almost puked on that one.
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10-19-2005, 07:54 PM
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A lot of people suffer from stress and don't outwardly show it. I'll bet a lot of these deaths and strokes come from maintaining a pressure-cooker inside that never gets a chance to vent. If you eat healthy, exercise and avoid high-risk activities, what else can it be?
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10-19-2005, 08:01 PM
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of course they do their share of dishing it out too......
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Proud owner of .... 1971 280SE W108 1979 300SD W116 1983 300D W123 1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper 1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel 1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified) --------------------- Section 609 MVAC Certified --------------------- "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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10-19-2005, 08:09 PM
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10-19-2005, 08:12 PM
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Proud owner of .... 1971 280SE W108 1979 300SD W116 1983 300D W123 1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper 1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel 1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified) --------------------- Section 609 MVAC Certified --------------------- "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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10-19-2005, 08:21 PM
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