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The Survive and Thrive Bloghop is meant to bring awareness of disease prevention and early detection regarding medical conditions that may be averted or treated if caught in the early stages. If you're just entering your forties, or even fifties in particular, you can make a difference in your own chances of beating illnesses by being aware and taking steps to prevent bad habits which will pay you back later in life.
Take a walk through a senior's care home or through the recovery-rehab unit in a hospital to see the effects of heart attacks, strokes, cancer and other degenerative diseases. It's an eye-opener and one we don't like to think about. It's up to us to stay out of those situations.
HEART HEALTHY
Prevention:
Eat heart healthy - lean meats, less fat and more olive oil, complex carbs, fruits and veggies
Walk, run or exercise in some manner. Get off your tush! BIC is good for writing, but not for health.
Get a checkup if Heart conditions or Heart attacks run in your family (tests specifically for the heart as well as associated tests)
If High cholesterol runs in your family, discuss the dangers and testing with your doctor, even if you're slim and appear healthy.
Tiredness can imply a warning: clogged arteries, anemic conditions, and others, so have a checkup with your doctor. A barrage of tests may be needed, but it's your life or that of a loved one at risk.
TIME Factors:
Time is essential if a heart attack occurs; you must have some idea of what to do. They can happen anytime, after a stressful situation or during peaceful sleep. Strokes, and heart attacks don't always give warning signs. Have you had any first aid training?
Will you know what to do and how fast you have to do it? My desire to know First Aid came from seeing hubs in a car accident when we were in our early thirties (I was 7 months pregnant at the time). A woman driver ran through a yellow light as it was turning red. I saw it happen as hubs was picking me up from work. The co-workers in the company I worked for were taking care of his bleeding from his head immediately after the accident occurred because they knew First Aid. I thanked each one of them individually after the accident.
After that, I wanted to be able to be competent if I ever was in a similar situation. In addition, when I became a mother, I wanted to be know what to do if my kids were choking, or having other distress in the early years. I took several courses - basic first aid, lifesaving techniques, and baby CPR, and that knowledge helped when hubs had his heart attack this past summer. I knew what the term 'clear the airway' meant and how to do basic CPR when the 911 operator told me to do that. It is critical.
Ambulance Prioritization
I recently read a news article about the triage of ambulance prioritization of emergency calls in our local paper, The Vancouver Sun. The article says the ambulance response teams prioritize in order to help those first where time makes a large difference, such as cardiac arrests, respiratory collapse, etc. Time without oxygen will impact recovery and chances of survival. In these cases, speed is the essence that helps.
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It's your choice. Wouldn't you prefer to be prepared?
To read the other blogposts, click on the title: SURVIVE AND THRIVE
Thanks again to our hosts for organizing and promoting Good Health and Prevention!
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Have you had testing for various diseases: Diabetes, heart trouble, cancer, etc? Do you know first aid?
Please leave a comment to let me know you were here, and thanks for dropping by! I'll respond.
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