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Arrhythmia

Canadian Medical Association journal (CMAJ), 2010-06, Vol.182 (9), p.944-944 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

COPYRIGHT 2010 Joule Inc. ;Copyright Canadian Medical Association Jun 15, 2010 ;1995-2010, Canadian Medical Association ;ISSN: 0820-3946 ;EISSN: 1488-2329 ;DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.100653 ;CODEN: CMAJAX

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  • Title:
    Arrhythmia
  • Author: Joseph, Eve
  • Subjects: Arrhythmia ; Blood pressure ; Care and treatment ; Diagnosis ; Heart ; Heart rate ; Humanities ; Physiological aspects
  • Is Part Of: Canadian Medical Association journal (CMAJ), 2010-06, Vol.182 (9), p.944-944
  • Description: When I was a child I cupped an injured bird in my hands. Its one good wing beat frantically against my palms. One month ago I woke to my heart fluttering in my chest cavity. One good wing beating. Sparrows often flew into our windows. In our house we put injured birds in cardboard boxes with holes punched in the lids. My friend put the ones she retrieved in paper bags where 50 per cent of them recovered. I buried most of mine in the backyard; she watched some of hers fly out of brown bags. The cardiologist tells me there is a 50-50 chance my heart will return to atrial fibrillation once I stop taking flecainide and diltiazem. Like the earth's hum we hear the heart only when we stop and listen. In a recent echocardiogram I heard the wet thwump of it; on the screen bursts of red and green static pulsed with every contraction. To my eyes the heart looked like a weather map with one hell of a big storm on the radar. [Eve Joseph]'s first book of poetry, The Startled Heart (Oolichan Press, 2004), was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Book Prize; her second book, The Secret Signature of Things, was published in 2010.
  • Publisher: Ottawa: Joule Inc
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0820-3946
    EISSN: 1488-2329
    DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.100653
    CODEN: CMAJAX
  • Source: ProQuest One Psychology
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