Early Start Behavioral Health

09/10/2025

08/04/2025

This was something I never thought about, and it made me think…

I I've taken many CPR classes over the years, but I was never told this...

When you're alone and have a heart attack. What are you gonna do then?

A very good post that can't be shared enough:
1. Take a 2-minute break and read this:
Let's just say it's 5:25 pm and you're driving home after an unusually hard day's work.

2. You are very tired and frustrated.
All of a sudden your chest hurts. They are starting to radiate to the arm and jaw. It feels like you're being stabbed right in the chest and heart. You're a few miles from the hospital or nearest home.

3. Unfortunately, you don't know if you can do it.

4. You may have taken CPR training, but the person running the course hasn't told you how to help yourself.

5. How do you survive a heart attack when you're alone when it happens? A person who feels weak and whose heart beats fast has only about 10 seconds before losing consciousness.

6. But you can help yourself by coughing repeatedly and really hard! Deep breaths before each cough. Coughing should repeat every second until you get to the hospital or until your heart starts beating normally.

7. Deep breathing gives oxygen to your lungs and cough movements increase your heart and blood circulation. Heart pressure also helps to restore a normal heartbeat. Here's how victims of cardiac arrest can get to the hospital for proper treatment.

8. Cardiologists say if someone receives this message and passes it on to 10 people, we can expect to save at least one life.

9. FOR WOMEN: You should know that women have additional and different symptoms. They rarely have chest pain or arm pain.

You also feel indigestion and tension in the back of the bra line plus sudden fatigue.

Instead of posting jokes, today we are perhaps helping save lives by spreading this message.

❤️ COPY (hold your finger, click on the text and select copy, go to your own page and where you usually want to write, select your finger again and paste).hi

08/03/2025

07/09/2025

When Noah was born, doctors told his young father, Ben, who had Down syndrome, that he wouldn’t be able to raise a child.
That he wouldn’t understand feeding schedules.
That he wouldn’t know how to comfort a crying baby.
That he wouldn’t be enough.

But Ben didn’t listen.

He held his newborn close, kissed his forehead, and whispered,

“I may not know everything… but I know how to love you.”

And love him he did.

Ben fed him with shaking hands, learned lullabies by humming, and rocked him every night until the sun rose. He worked part-time folding napkins at a local diner — saving every penny for Noah’s future.

There were stares. Whispers.
Other parents asked, “Is he… the father?”
Ben would just smile and nod proudly.

“He’s my son. My best friend.”

Noah grew. Ben aged.

Years passed like pages in a quiet book.

Noah became a man. Strong, kind, successful. People would say,

“You turned out so well.”

He’d reply,

“Because I was raised by someone who only saw the world with love.”

As Ben got older, his memory began to fade. He’d forget where he put things. Then names. Then Noah’s.

And one day, he looked into Noah’s eyes and asked,

“Are you my friend?”

Noah held his hand and whispered,

“I’m your boy. The one you raised. The one you gave everything to.”

Now, Noah feeds him. Helps him walk. Hums lullabies when Ben can’t sleep.

He’s not just caring for his father.

He’s repaying the man who raised him… twice.

And when they take pictures now, Noah smiles wide.

Because the world sees an old man with Down syndrome and his adult son.

But he sees his hero.
His teacher.
His heart.

02/12/2025

UPDATE: 02/13/2025 1100 hours - LEVEL 1 CANCELED!!!!

A Level I Snow Advisory is due to conditions caused by ice, blowing and drifting snow, which can make county roadways hazardous. Residents should drive cautiously. This advisory can be upgraded or discontinued.

Lucas County Weather Advisories will appear on our webpage via a red banner here: LUCASCOUNTYSHERIFF.ORG

You can find the definitions of the snow advisories here:https://lucascountysheriff.org/resources/snow-emergencies

02/04/2025

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