Today's Star Tribune has a story about a grandmother who fell in her daughter's driveway in subfreezing temperatures and was unable to get up by herself because of arthritis. She lay there for about four hours, first shivering and then lapsing into unconsciousness. By the time her daughter got home she was still breathing, but her heart stopped beating just as the EMTs arrived. They gave her chest compressions to keep her blood moving but did not risk trying to restart her heart until they got her back to the hospital. Much to the hospital staff's amazement, she has fully recovered. She attributes her survival to her Scandinavian ancestry. By the way, unconscious people breathe, too, or they would be dead, so yes, I believe it is possible for an unconscious person to drown. Chuck __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3751 (20090108) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jan 08 2009 - 11:39:23 PST
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