Six months of emergency-free cardiac activity–or, as the Buddhists put it, a quiet heart–and out of nowhere that unquestioning confidence in the body’s automatic function gets shattered. It’s Saturday night. For some reason I’m not falling asleep. My mouth is dry from the forced hot-air heating. I pad downstairs in the dark, scape a little […]

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Finally, I’m attacking this issue in the 21st century manner—by downloading apps onto my iPhone. AFib Educator is made by one of the world’s largest drug companies, Sanofi-Aventis. It must have seemed a good idea to spend the time and money developing an app; after all, as the app says, AFib (the Sanofi-Aventis abbreviation) is […]

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