I copied this from an e mail I got and thought it would be good to pass it on:
How to save your self if alone with a heart attack.
Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far.
Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this article seemed to be in order. 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 very 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.  I finished painting Christie Vilsack (the wife of Iowa’s governor). She came to my studio Friday October 6th and picked up the painting. Again she had my picture taken with her and the portrait. I hope I get a copy of the photo. 

I am so thankful that both Christie and her husband liked the painting. I’m now waiting for the payment.  I can not show you a picture of it until after the unveiling in November. So that will be my next email. I am always blessed with orders to paint and draw. The best part I am blessed with the people I meet and teach. I believe I would keep doing what I do even if I were rich. I do not know what I would retire to.