A chronic illness is a strange companion: the more deeply ingrained it gets into your body, your life and your psyche, the more it becomes a condition of existence, a normality rather than an abnormality. For me, the chronic condition that was underlying much—who knows how much?—of these cardiac events was the fact that all […]

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Of course, I was hoping that my visit to the cardiologist the day after next would not only answer my questions (Why had this all started up again? What was causing the individual attacks? Why had the one on Monday night seemed so different to the one two days later? Would I have to keep […]

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