1. And parents – children playing in the water make noise. When they
get quiet, you get to them and find out why.
2. Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically
unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for
breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing
must be fulfilled, before speech occurs.
3. Drowning people’s mouths alternately sink below and reappear above
the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above
the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and
call out for help. When the drowning people’s mouths are above the
surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink
below the surface of the water.
4. Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces
them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s
surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water, permits drowning
people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of
the water to breathe.
5. Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people
cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically,
drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot
stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help,
moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue
equipment.
6. From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response
people’s bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a
supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning
people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60
seconds before submersion occurs.
Look for these other signs of drowning when persons are in the water:
▪ Head low in the water, mouth at water level
▪ Head tilted back with mouth open
▪ Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus
▪ Eyes closed
▪ Hair over forehead or eyes
▪ Not using legs – Vertical
▪ Hyperventilating or gasping
▪ Trying to swim in a particular direction but not making headway
▪ Trying to roll over on the back
▪ Ladder climb, rarely out of the water.
I had a rough week which is why there hasn’t been anything new ’till
now. My legs were very swollen which is a symptom of congestive heart
failure. My Mother died of it when she was about my age, so you can
imagine I was worried. I visited my cardiologist and she put me in the
hospital for a series of tests. We’re talking 5 days of kind nurses
with a sense of humor and food you have to have a sense of humor to
eat.
that I have to have an angioplasty to open up some blockage in my
heart. Another two days in the hospital but at the hospital across the
street. This meant that I had to go across the street in an $800
ambulance ride for four minutes. I could have walked across the street
and pocketed the $800. There was drama between two doctors. One was my doctor, Dr. Chutney,
and the other was her boss Dr. Bulk. Dr. Chutney and I decided to skip
the nuclear stress test and go right to the Cath. On the weekend,
while she was away her boss, Dr. Bulk, came in and said he had looked
at my X-rays and charts and that Chutney was wrong. He would give me
the stress test on Sunday and I could go home. I was concerned about
his telling me that Chutney was wrong, a foolish way to phrase it to
the patient. After he left my hospital bed I thought of several
questions I needed to ask him before I could go along with his
approach. I sent word to him 3 times and he refused to talk to me; the
last time he was on the phone with my nurse while she was in my room
and he still refused to talk to me until tomorrow. This was weird
behavior, so I complained to the patient advocate and got Bulk in a
lot of trouble. Asshole. One of the jokes I told that was popular was this: A patient walks
into his doctor’e office at 5 PM and asks “Doc, what are the results
of the test?” Doc said ”I have some dreadful news for you and maybe
even worse news. You only have 24 hours to live!” “Oh my God, what
could possibly be worse than that?” Doc said “I’ve been trying to
reach you all day!” I’mm home now but I have to go back in for another cath to remove the
rest of the blockage, In the meantime, herbgart’s incite site will get
back to normal.
"Now that the oil is here in Mississippi the animals are running and
there is nowhere to go," Solangi said.
Red Cross and such to rebuild their lives after a disaster but
dolphins, whales, turtles and everything in the Gulf have nothing but
their own habitat, which is now in jeopardy."
Gravelly voiced musician Coco Robicheaux was bellied up at the Yellow
Moon about a month ago, a dingy joint in the eccentric fringes of the
city, ruminating on the havoc the BP oil spill has wrought along the
Gulf Coast. He slips into rhyme from time to time, and soon his
monologue transformed into lyrics. A few other barflies ran home to
grab instruments -- a banjo and a couple of harmonicas -- and "The New
Battle of New Orleans," the name they gave this ditty, was born:
We blew that rig and that oil kept a-comin'
Twice as many barrels as there was a while ago
Thar they blow till the oil it was a-running
Up the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
The Business Roundtable is clarifying its complaints with the White
House's economic policy, reports Lori Montgomery: "The final straw,
said Roundtable president John Castellani, was the introduction of two
pieces of legislation, now pending in Congress, that the group views
as particularly bad for business. One, a provision of the
administration's financial regulation overhaul, would make it easier
for shareholders to nominate corporate board members. The other would
raise taxes on multinational corporations."
executive control of board members without interference from the
people who own the company (annoying stockholders) and paying more of
their fair share of taxes, reducing their profits by a relatively
small amount. ‘’business’’ is what takes place before profits are
counted and profits gp to all sorts of things besides the part shared
with the stockholders (there we go, mentioning those annoying people
that might interfere with the amount of the ‘’profit’’ that goes
directly into the pockets of the top brass). The desire to make the
most profit possible as a sacred trust with the stockholders is
bullshit. It only applies when it doesn’t interfere with salaries,
bonuses and value if shares are owned by the top brass. Even more
important, it is a rationale for doing a lot of illegal and immoral
things as ‘’business as usual’’. Isn’t it about time we called this
particular brand of malfeasance for what it is. To distort a phrase by
Michael Douglas in ‘’Wall Street’’ - ‘’Greed is not alway good.
Sometimes less is more.’’