Fw: How to Survive a Heart Attack Alone

[Robin Hufford]

Keith,
 Never having had a heart attack I am sure I can't adequately empathize with you
but sympathies nevertheless.  All I know on this subject is what I have posted
as having been reported (I think in the paper) - a physician saved himself in
the manner I described.
      I have, however, spent many thousands of dollars paying for analyses of a
set of complicatated neurological symptoms and received divergent
recommendations where one would expect even a rudimentary  level of analytical
skill would force a relative similarity.   The opinions purchased have been many
times mutually contradictory, mutually exclusive and inconsistent with one
another,  with recommendations ranging from urgently proceeding to surgery to
doing essentially nothing,  all the while developed from the same set of
symptoms, leading me to question the wisdom of placing an undue amount of faith
on the analytical skills in general of commercial medicine.  Many people, I
believe, can give similar accounts.
      Taking note with astonishment of the many patients who died up until the
last decade or so from improperly treated ulcers - a simple matter generally of
an easily treated infection, reflecting on the ostracization of the Australian
doctor who actually correctly analyzed the problem and  the similar treatment of
Jenner regarding sepsis and others with innovative solutions to ongoing
"conventionally" treated symptomology and considerering the numerous other
examples of cognitive inertia of the medical establishment, which I could go on
for some time about,  I think I will cough like crazy if I should find myself in
the situation where I think it necessary.   What would one have to lose?  Death
is the alternative!
     In any case, regards particularly to a person whose principles are not
determined by the expediency of survival.
Robin Hufford

Keith Roberts wrote:

> Denial causes the most damage to the heart. Even when they told me I was
> having a heart attack, it was like I still didn't want to believe it.
> The aspirin helped me. The minor attacks I had on one night then again the
> next,went away so quickly with the aspirin, I thought it was something else.
> When I woke up later the second night, it was the coughing technique that
> got me to the hospital. Actually I was saying, God Help! Me, over and over
> with a very forceful expulsion on the word help.
> Thinking about coughing was very far from my mind. After a two hour major
> attack I had almost zero damage to the heart. Lucky me.
> And don't worry, after all that, I'm still an atheist,
> Thank God.
> Keith Roberts
>
> > Even this subject is, of course, off topic here, but, it is indeed,
> useful
> > information which should be shared, in my opinion,  and, where applicable,
> will
> > be absolutely vital.
>
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