#2 2008-08-13 18:24:44
Where's the PSA about bald Britons beating the shit out of you? Also, the way they describe the symptoms cover about everybody. Little pangs and tightness is normal for all muscles, including chest muscles, right? It's like anything you try to diagnose on the internet: "Symptoms generally include open, bleeding sores, but can also include mild tingling, or you could have it and not know it at all."
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#3 2008-08-13 20:41:20
I've always read that that usually the first warning sign of a heart attack is death.
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#4 2008-08-13 21:26:30
I quite admired this as a PSA. I wish American PSA's could be as forthright and graphic.
Baywolfe wrote:
I've always read that that usually the first warning sign of a heart attack is death.
That was true once upon a time, but most people survive a first attack these days; and how quickly and how well they're treated immediately after the attack has a major effect on quality of life/cost of care afterwards.
A lot of people misread the first signs of an MI as indigestion (the tightness, discomfort and shortness of breath). The PSA makes a point of saying that you'd probably be embarrassed if the EMT's come running and then diagnose heartburn, but if you don't call them and it ain't heartburn, you'll probably die.
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#5 2008-08-13 21:51:31
George Orr wrote:
...That was true once upon a time, but most people survive a first attack these days; and how quickly and how well they're treated immediately after the attack has a major effect on quality of life/cost of care afterwards.
I am a testament to that. Within one hour of the attack I was looking up at a bearded kid in the operating room who said "Don't look at me like that. I do 5 or 6 of these a day (stents)... good night"
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#6 2008-08-14 00:15:59
Yeah, but sometimes some chest tightness actually is just chest tightness, right? I'm not going for the obvious joke here--how does one tell a chest charley horse from a heart attack? I know some of you people must have had heart attacks before.
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#7 2008-08-17 03:08:52
The only time I ever thought I going to have a heart attack was the first time I smoked weed.
-Cheers
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#8 2008-08-17 03:48:50
niknatas wrote:
The only time I ever thought I going to have a heart attack was the first time I smoked weed.
What the hell? Seven months here and you're only now getting a-round to posting? You need to work on your time-management skills, or some-thing.
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#9 2008-08-17 10:46:45
HI NIK!!!!
Isn't the guy in that video the same one who did the "2 Girls 1 Cup" play-by-play video?
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#10 2008-08-17 13:55:28
Niknatas, you'd best pop open a cold one and stay a while. I hope EIB network is still in effect.
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#11 2008-08-17 14:57:34
Welcome back, Nik. Our official Asian hottie greeter is indisposed but stick around, she'll reappear. Meanwhile...
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#12 2008-08-23 02:56:38
Goddamn it. I thought I could sneak in and join the fray. Sorry good lads and lasses. Been busy fucking my Chinese wife for the last 7 months.
Anywho ... I am going back to China in a week. I'll keep you posted.
Decadence, I will promise you that I will have fun anal time with a Chinese Olympian.
George Orr, I will drink 30 pints of Chinese rice wine and poop your name on a side walk.
lechero, I will cry out your name before I am shot in the head for masturbating in public.
choad, I will be thinking of you when I eat donkey meat for the second time in my life.
-Cheers
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#13 2008-08-23 04:45:22
Publicity whore.
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