 Advice From The Purple Mountain Sage
To increase your enjoyment of living:
1. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
2. Create your own eco friendly all-purpose cleaner: mix two cups of white vinegar with two cups water. To boost its cleaning power, warm it in the microwave in a glass container. You can add a little essential oil, like tea tree, rosemary or lavender, to add a fragrance, if you want.
3. What to when you are alone and 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. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and 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. --From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240s newsletter 'AND THE BEAT GOES ON'
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