forget shark week - it's CPR week!

tap, tap, tap....

Is this thing on?

I'm alive! We're all alive! Drowning in a sea of end-of-school-year activities but otherwise mostly intact.

I have much to update on and I will get started right after this post - I promise! But I have something important to tell you first!

It's National CPR Week!

You all might remember that Laundry Dad and some co-workers saved another co-worker's life when he suffered sudden cardiac arrest during a meeting about a year and a half ago.

He is healthy and completely fine today thanks to CPR.

Sadly, 93 percent of cardiac arrest victims don’t survive to make it home from the hospital. And only 32 percent of cardiac arrest victims get CPR from a bystander.

You can learn hands-only CPR in 60 seconds. I swear. Watch this video.



(A tip from the paramedics who took over for Laundry Dad - do compressions to the tune of Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees. If you're too young to know that song, what about a more macabre option, Another One Bites the Dust by Queen. Seriously. Both of those songs have the right tempo. That's all you have to remember! That and call 911 first!)

Heart disease is the NUMBER ONE killer of women. Number 1. Watch that video. Hopefully you'll NEVER have to do CPR, but if you do, you can save a life.

Got any good CPR stories? Let me hear them in the comments.

This post is part of the social media campaign for CPR Weeek, a part of the Go Red for Women Campaign sponsored by the American Heart Association. I receieved no compensation for this post. It's a program near and dear to my heart.