It's not right you know

20 Mar 2013

Government adverts offering advice in emergencies is always usefull, sometimes entertaining, often enlightening and possibly life saving on many occasions.
"ooh look petunia a sailing dingy" is timeless
But the advice for a person having a stroke is somewhat difficult to envisage
Act F A S T
The thought of saying to someone you believe is having a stroke "your having a stroke can you smile" just doesn't seem quite right to me lol

21 Mar 2013

Seems perfectly sensible. That and the arm raising thing. I would certainly ask a member of my family to smile or do the other checks if I thought they were having a stroke. Better to ask an apparently silly question than delay intervention and increase the resultant damage.

21 Mar 2013

It's good advice, please practice with your loved one regularly. You never know when this awful condition will occur!

21 Mar 2013

it's almost comical that 70% of people having a heart attack have absolutely no idea that's whats happening :eeek:
with symptoms like indigestion and toothache its all too often dismissed with serious damage to the heart resulting
there really should be more information.

21 Mar 2013

It seems perfectly reasonable advice to me. When coming across any casualty a basic check of their abilities is essential, and timesaving. If you ask someone if they are ok and they dont answer you then why not ask them to do a simple facial expression or movement. It takes barely a second and could make a dramatic difference.

21 Mar 2013

Get a sense of humour people - please wink

Even making a joke of it in here is raising awareness as can be seen from the replies lol

Anything which raises awareness on serious matters has to be a good thing doesn't it ?
We even got a mention in the thread of toothache being dangerous, Sasha almost died just a few months ago from a wisdom tooth problem, even on arrival at A&E the doctors who moved her from triage to surgery made sure one of the doctors carried a paramedic kit through the hospital corridors with her in case something happened on the small trip, she spent two weeks in in hospital 1 week of it in intensive care and still bears the scars of the tracheostromy she had to have to save her life, yes toothache can kill, how many people are aware of that. (though on the good side she could not talke for 2 weeks so it wasn't all bad)
Back in the early 80s a friend of mine lost his leg from just below the knee after standing on a piece of wood with a nail in it, something many of us have done and often don't take appropriate action against infection.

21 Mar 2013

Quote by MidsCouple24
Get a sense of humour people - please

Sorry, I really didn't spot your post as humourous. I thought you really felt that way.

21 Mar 2013

Quote by foxylady2209
Get a sense of humour people - please

Sorry, I really didn't spot your post as humourous. I thought you really felt that way.
Me too. especially as your thread is called 'it's not right you know' which intimates that the advice is incorrect.

21 Mar 2013

Quote by MidsCouple24
Get a sense of humour people - please
Even making a joke of it in here is raising awareness as can be seen from the replies
Anything which raises awareness on serious matters has to be a good thing doesn't it ?
We even got a mention in the thread of toothache being dangerous, Sasha almost died just a few months ago from a wisdom tooth problem, even on arrival at A&E the doctors who moved her from triage to surgery made sure one of the doctors carried a paramedic kit through the hospital corridors with her in case something happened on the small trip, she spent two weeks in in hospital 1 week of it in intensive care and still bears the scars of the tracheostromy she had to have to save her life, yes toothache can kill, how many people are aware of that. (though on the good side she could not talke for 2 weeks so it wasn't all bad)
Back in the early 80s a friend of mine lost his leg from just below the knee after standing on a piece of wood with a nail in it, something many of us have done and often don't take appropriate action against infection.

no humour mids? i had what i thought was indigestion and also what felt like toothache. 11 hours later i collapsed and was rushed 50 miles away by ambulance for an emergency heart op i spent 2 days in intensive care with the doctors telling me after how i was lucky to be alive and how big the heart attack was ,i then got the explanation that they wouldn't let Liza in the ambulance as it was doubtful i would make the journey
so believe me your churlish comments are not funny here
just to clarify no arm pains no clutching of the chest and no chest pains like the films rolleyes

22 Mar 2013

Quote by Lizaleanrob
Get a sense of humour people - please
Even making a joke of it in here is raising awareness as can be seen from the replies
Anything which raises awareness on serious matters has to be a good thing doesn't it ?
We even got a mention in the thread of toothache being dangerous, Sasha almost died just a few months ago from a wisdom tooth problem, even on arrival at A&E the doctors who moved her from triage to surgery made sure one of the doctors carried a paramedic kit through the hospital corridors with her in case something happened on the small trip, she spent two weeks in in hospital 1 week of it in intensive care and still bears the scars of the tracheostromy she had to have to save her life, yes toothache can kill, how many people are aware of that. (though on the good side she could not talke for 2 weeks so it wasn't all bad)
Back in the early 80s a friend of mine lost his leg from just below the knee after standing on a piece of wood with a nail in it, something many of us have done and often don't take appropriate action against infection.

no humour mids? i had what i thought was indigestion and also what felt like toothache. 11 hours later i collapsed and was rushed 50 miles away by ambulance for an emergency heart op i spent 2 days in intensive care with the doctors telling me after how i was lucky to be alive and how big the heart attack was ,i then got the explanation that they wouldn't let Liza in the ambulance as it was doubtful i would make the journey
so believe me your churlish comments are not funny here
just to clarify no arm pains no clutching of the chest and no chest pains like the films rolleyes

Yes and I was lucky enough to spend 2 years in hospital from 1982 to 1984, lucky, yes because I survived and can still laugh and realise that if laughter heightens awareness then it is a good thing, well unless you laugh at sick people rather than with them, me I would have made the advert and slogan FART, Face, Arms, Response, Time - now that would have made people more aware of what to look for and what action to take but of course they would then encounter people with no sense of humour or realisation that in the real world, the need to get the message accross rises above some other ways of thinking :lol: The truth is many humans find humour a way of dealing with lifes downside, there is hardly a joke I hear that is not at someones misfortune, be it the sick or the mother in law, we respond well to humour.

22 Mar 2013

Quote by Lizaleanrob
it's almost comical that 70% of people having a heart attack have absolutely no idea that's whats happening :eeek:
with symptoms like indigestion and toothache its all too often dismissed with serious damage to the heart resulting
there really should be more information.

There is Rob everywhere.
Any person can go onto the web and research anything they like.

Some good advice on that link and was the very first one on the page. The information is out there Rob, you just have to be slightly bothered to look for it.
If in any doubt.............go to your GP.

22 Mar 2013

I am fully aware that more heart attacks take place daily where the victim has no idea of what happened than those who do know what is happening to them.
I know this because I have watched TV programmes, it is often an event in a programme like Doctors or the Soaps, even in comedy programmes, just as prevalent are those taken to hospital (on TV) where people think they are having a heart attack only to find it is indigestion, this is good for creating awareness, perhaps the Government could make the BBC run more "awareness, public information" clips as part of their terms and conditions of broadcasting, after all they are supposed to be partially funded by us for our benefit.