During a BBQ, a lady stumbled and took a little fall. She assured
everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics) and
just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. They got her
cleaned up and got her a new plate of food. While she appeared a
bit shaken up, she went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening.
Her husband called later telling everyone
that his wife had been taken to the hospital. At 6:00 PM, she
passed away.
She had suffered a stroke at the
BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke perhaps she would be
with us today.
It only takes a minute to read
this.
Recognizing a Stroke:
A neurologist says that if he can get
to stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects
of a stroke .. totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized,
diagnosed, and getting to the patient within 3 hours, which is
tough. Sometimes the symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately,
the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may
suffer brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms.
RECOGNIZING A STROKE: Just remember the "3"
steps. Read and Learn !
Now doctors say a bystander can
recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:
1. Ask the individual to SMILE. 2. Ask him or her to RAISE
BOTH ARMS. 3. Ask the person to SPEAK A
SIMPLE SENTENCE (e.g.. "It is sunny out today").
If he or she has trouble with any of these tasks, call 9-1-1 immediately and describe the symptoms to
the dispatcher.
After discovering that a group of
non-medical volunteers could identify facial weakness, arm weakness
and speech problems, researchers urged the general public to
learn the three questions. They presented their conclusions at the
American Stroke Association's annual meeting last February.
Widespread use of this test could result in prompt diagnosis and
treatment of the stroke and prevent brain damage.
A cardiologist says if everyone who
gets this e-mail sends it to 10 people; you can bet that at least
one life will be saved.
BE A FRIEND AND SHARE THIS ARTICLE WITH
AS MANY FRIENDS AS POSSIBLE. You could save their lives.
(Selected and brought it to you by TRINH SON
LUONG)
POLICE ALERT
Be aware of new car-jacking scheme.
Imagine: You walk across the parking lot, unlock your car and get inside.
Then you lock all your doors, start the engine and shift into REVERSE, and you look
into therearview mirror to back out of
your parking space and you notice a piece of paper stuck to the middle of the
rear window.
So, you shift into PARK, unlock your doors
and jump out of your car to remove that paper (or whatever it is) that is
obstructing your view.When you reach
the back of your car, that is when the car-jackers appear out of nowhere, jump
into your car and take off !! Your engine was running, (ladies would have their
purse in the car) and they practically mow you down as they speed off in your
car.
BE AWARE OF THIS NEW SCHEME THAT IS NOW
BEING USED.
Just drive away and remove the paper that
is stuck to your window later or remove the paper before you unlock your car. Be
thankful that you read this email. I hope you will forward this to friends and
family ... especially to women! A purse contains all identification, and you
certainly do NOT want someone getting your home address. They already HAVE your
keys!
This link (above)
has brought to you by THU LAN. Being aware of this brand new virus, ladies and gentlemen
!!!
90# on the Telephone
PASS
ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW
I received
a telephone call last evening from an individual identifying himself, as an AT&T Service Technician, who was conducting
a test on Telephone Lines! He stated that to complete the test, I should touch nine(9), zero(0), & the pound sign (#), and then
hang up! Luckily, I was suspicious and refused!
Upon
contacting the Telephone Company, I was informed that by pushing 90#, you give the requesting individual,
full access to your telephone line, which enables them, to place long distance calls billed to your home phone number!
I was
further informed that this scam has been originating from many local Jails/Prisons! I have also verified this information,
with UCB Telecom, Pacific Bell, MCI, Bell Atlantic, and GTE!
Please
beware!!!!"DO NOT" press 90# for ANYONE!
The
GTE Security Department requested that I share this information with EVERYONE I KNOW! "PLEASE", pass this on to everyone
YOU know! If you have mailing lists and/or newsletters from some organizations you are connected with, I encourage you to
pass on this information to them!
(brought to you by PHAM VAN QUANG)
So far,
no one has been cured yet and it is spreading like mad.
UN Warns of Worldwide Threat from Killer Pneumonia
( By Richard Waddington
)
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (news - web
sites) warned on Saturday of a worldwide health threat as a mystery killer pneumonia spread from east Asia to other parts
of the globe.
Releasing a rare "emergency travel advisory," the United Nations (news - web sites) health
agency said an ill passenger had been taken to an isolation unit in Frankfurt, Germany, on Saturday after being removed
from a plane en route from New York to Singapore.
Some 155 other passengers who had been due to change planes
or stay in Frankfurt were placed in quarantine there, while the remaining 85 passengers and 20 crew on the Singapore
Airlines flight continued their journey, German officials said.
A spokesman for the Geneva-based WHO said
there were reports two people had died in Canada, taking the death toll to nine worldwide since the first outbreak of
severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), an atypical pneumonia whose cause is not yet known, was detected in China
in February.
"This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat," WHO director-general Gro Harlem Brundtland
said in a statement.
Among the dead is an American businessman taken ill in Hanoi after visiting Shanghai. He died
on Thursday in Hong Kong where 47 cases have been reported.
Some 40 people were being treated in Hanoi, where one nurse
died on Saturday, according to local health officials. Cases have also been reported in Indonesia, the Philippines,
Singapore and Thailand.
WHO spokesman Dick Thompson said the passenger taken from the plane in Frankfurt was a Singapore
doctor who had visited New York after treating some of the first suspected SARS patients in Singapore.
"If the
suspicion (of pneumonia) is confirmed, the transit passengers will have to remain under observation in quarantine for seven
days in order to diagnose any possible infection and prevent the disease spreading," the Social Affairs Ministry in
the state of Hesse, which includes Frankfurt,said in a statement.
HIGH ATTACK RATE
WHO issued its first global alert for 10 years earlier this week because
of the speed at which the disease travels and because patients are not responding to the usual treatments for pneumonia,
Thompson said.
"As reports of cases are confirmed, you will see that there is a very high attack rate. When
they get sick, they get very sick," he said.
"We have been doing tests for weeks now in the world's best laboratories
and we still do not know whether it is a virus or bacteria," the spokesman added.
Most
of the latest cases have been among hospital workers.
The first outbreak was reported in February in China's southern
Guangdong province, where 305 people were infected and five people died.
Singapore and Taiwan have issued travel warnings
after some cases followed trips to Hong Kong or mainland China.
It was after a visit to Hong Kong, where anxious
locals have been sweeping surgical masks off pharmacy shelves, that a Canadian woman died of severe pneumonia on March 5.
Her son, who did not travel with her, also fell sick and died.
In its alert, WHO said travelers and airline crews
needed to be aware of the first symptoms, which include high temperature and difficulty in breathing.
It
was also likely that anybody taken ill would have been in contact with a person diagnosed with the disease or who had traveled
to an area where cases had been reported, the alert said.
But WHO said it was not calling for restrictions in
travel to any area. (--Additional reporting by Michael Steen in Frankfurt)
