Lifesaving Advice

We learn lessons every day of our lives. Some of it can be lifesaving.

Here’s advice worth internalizing.

Trust your subconscious to pull these lessons up if and when needed.

(Although I admit it might be a stretch to find a tampon to stick in a wound at the exact same moment you have been hit by a bullet. And disheartening to learn that in a polar bear encounter, you are essentially a dead duck.)

What trivial knowledge might one day save your life?

• When having a heart attack, you don’t swallow aspirin, you chew it. Then swallow.
  
• If someone is stabbed or is punctured by a sharp object. Leave it in. The object is blocking the blood from spilling out.
  
• If you ever get shot by a small caliber weapon, one of the best things to use to plug the hole and stop the bleeding is a tampon.
  
• If you are choking or having a heart attack get out of your car. You can’t signal anyone if you are unconscious inside the car, but if you are draped over the hood of the car you are sending a distress signal.
  
• If you vomit and it looks like coffee grounds, you need to get to a hospital. You’re bleeding somewhere and it’s reaching your stomach. The partially digested blood comes up looking like coffee grounds.
  
• If being attacked, never strike in the torso, this is not the movies. Instead, go for the groin, eyes, or ears and then run and scream as fast and loud as you can.
  
• If you ever almost drown to the point of throwing up water or passing out, even if you feel 100% fine, get to a hospital. Your lungs can unwittingly self-fill up with fluid over the next few hours.
  
• Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing.
  
• If you’re ever somewhere really high (e.g. hiking) and you hear crunchy/crinkling noises in the air and/or feel static electricity (like your hair standing up), get out of there immediately, lightning is on it’s way.
  
• Use this helpful rhyme if you’re ever facing a bear: If it’s brown, lay down. If it’s black, fight back. If it’s white, good night.
  
• They rarely put Barnes and Nobles in bad areas, so if you are lost and need to find a decent area to stop, put “Barnes and Noble” in your GPS.
  
• Don’t walk down the stairs with your hands in your pockets.
  
• If you are stuck on a train track and have to abandon your vehicle to an oncoming train, run away from the track but also run towards the train itself. If you run in the same direction as the train is traveling, you will be standing where the debris of your former car lands.
  
• If you’re at the beach and the ocean suddenly recedes, get to high ground. ASAP
  
• If stuck in a riptide, remain calm, and swim parallel to the shore. You’ll still be pulled out some, but it’s better than fighting against the riptide, which is inevitably stronger than you are. Once you’re beyond the riptide, you can swim to shore.
  
• When drowning, use your jeans as a life preserver in water by tying the legs together and filling them air.
  
• Rohypnol, the date rape drug, has a salty taste to it.
  
• When crying for help, try and call out specific people (“You with the red shirt, help me, I’m being mugged) instead of just screaming generally (“Help! I’m being mugged”).
  
  Most important: You were born with instincts. If you feel something is wrong with a person, place, situation, it probably is. Don’t discount those feelings in your gut that something isn’t going to work out, or there’s something hazardous about the situation. Also, in these situations, don’t be afraid of being rude. Just leave.

Hafiz Suboor, https://darkpsychologyfacts.quora.com/