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When you are alone and have a heart attack. What are you gonna do then ?

A rarely good post that can't be shared often enough:

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Take a 2 minute break and read this:

Let's say it's 5:25 pm and you're driving home after an unusually hard day's work.

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You are really tired and frustrated.

All of a sudden your chest pains. They are starting to radiate in the arm and jaw. It feels like being stabbed in the chest and heart. You're only a few miles away from the nearest hospital or home.

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Unfortunately you don't know if you can make it..

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Maybe you've taken CPR training, but the person running the course hasn't told you how to help yourself.

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How do you survive a heart attack when you're alone when it happens? A person who is feeling weak and whose heart is beating hard has only about 10 seconds before losing consciousness.

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But you can help yourself by coughing repeatedly and very strongly! Deep breaths before every cough. Coughing should be repeated every second until you arrive at the hospital or until your heart starts to beat normally.

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Deep breathing gives oxygen to your lungs and coughing movements boost the heart and blood circulation. Heart pressure also helps to restore a normal heartbeat. Here's how cardiac arrest victims can make it to the hospital for the right treatment

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Cardiologists say if someone gets this message and passes it on to 10 people, we can expect to save at least one life.

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FOR WOMEN: You should know that women have additional and different symptoms. Rarely have crushing chest pain or pain in the arms. Often have indigestion and tightness across the back at the bra line plus sudden fatigue.

Instead of posting jokes, you're helping save lives by spreading this message.

Like, imagine they're like "hahaha you can't escape! There is no earth here for you to bend!" And this little 12yo blind girl starts laughing her ass off in their faces and then she just makes a fucking hole in the ground and falls through it.

When the gaang arrive looking for Toph she specifically avouds them because they'll make her stop, so they wander through the creepy aftermath, hearing stories from the 'survivors' until they reach the deepest cells where they find all the guards crammed into one, a jumble of groaning voices and limbs jutting out, some scream for help as one wall twists outward, nearly striking the gaang to throw another guard in the cell.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Dr. Carmel Harrington, the lead researcher for the study, was one of these parents. Her son unexpectedly and suddenly died as an infant 29 years ago. (...) Harrington explained what she was told about the cause of her child’s death. 

"Nobody could tell me. They just said it's a tragedy. But it was a tragedy that didn't sit well with my scientific brain.” 

Since then, she’s worked to find the cause of SIDS, both for herself and for the medical community as a whole. She went on to explain why this discovery is so important for parents whose babies suffered from SIDS. 

"These families can now live with the knowledge that this was not their fault," she said.

Candace: When mom sees Phineas and Ferb swinging around the city with Spider-Man they're gonna be so busted!

Candace is gonna have a crush on Peter (who's also a teenager) but have a great disdain for Spider-Man.

Candace: So, Peter *brushes her hair back* I heard you had a thing for redheads.

This is doubtless because of his experience of the trenches in the Great War.

Like, this is what things looked like to soldiers who fought in that war (image in black and white of a solitary soldier walking across a muddy wasteland pocked with puddles):

Here’s Delville Wood, the site of a battle in 1916 (sepia image of a wasteland dotted with broken and dead trees):

Here’s an image from the Battle of the Somme, in which Tolkien participated (image of soldiers standing above and inside a trench or earthwork in a grey wasteland; smoke from artillery is on the horizon)

And you know what those psalms contain? Messianic prophecy. Can you IMAGINE Jesus singing Psalm 118 -

"The LORD is with me, I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me? The LORD is with me; He is my helper. I will look in triumph on my enemies."

"The LORD's right hand is lifted high; the LORD's right hand has done mighty things!"

"I will not die but live, and will proclaim what the LORD has done."

"Open for me the gates of the righteous; I will enter and give thanks to the LORD. This is the gate of the LORD through which the righteous may enter."

"The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the LORD has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes. The LORD has done it this very day; let us rejoice today and be glad."

"Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD."

"The LORD is God; and He has made His light shine on us. With boughs in hand, join the festal procession up to the horns of the altar." (some versions translate this as tying the sacrifice to the altar)

-on the night He is to fulfill it?!?!

And then Psalm 116 -

"For you, LORD, have delivered me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before the LORD in the land of the living."

"I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD."

"Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His faithful servants."

Imagine Jesus lifting up the cup and instituting the New Covenant. Stumbling carrying the cross. Being bound to the cross as a sacrifice. His right hand lifted high above the earth on the cross to complete the most holy service unto God ever performed. Now He is the gate to the Father through which the righteous may enter. Eyes fixed on the joy set before Him. With these psalms in His mouth.

Are you kidding me right now 😭😭