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A Life on Hold
- Crossing Paths with Atrial Fibrillation
- Narrated by: Kirk O. Winkler
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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Summary
You're going about your daily routine when you suddenly feel an odd squirming in your chest. You quickly realize that it is your heart, flopping around like a fish out of water. What do you do? You probably panic! Maybe you also experience dizziness, nausea, or shortness of breath, or maybe you have no other symptoms at all. But it's still very scary because...it's your heart!
This is how chronic atrial fibrillation starts for many of us, and those who develop it often have little to no prior medical history to speak of. Once the demon a-fib has set in, though, we soon find our lives redirected down a dark uncharted path, our days consumed by vain attempts to divine the elusive origins of this mysterious malady as we desperately seek a panacea that can give us back our "normal", or at least some way to weaken the grasp that this unwelcome beast now has on our lives. Through it all, we put on performances of a lifetime for the rest of the world, acting as though all is well while coping as best we can with this invisible disorder...one that he who has never suffered through it cannot possibly understand. Try as we might, though, our lives and relationships will surely end up the worse for wear.
Within this book lies one man's personal account of how this condition impacted his life, how he managed to overcome it, the valuable knowledge that was acquired along the way, and the permanent marks that the journey has left on his subsequent existence. This medical autobiography is written in an informal first-person conversational style with accounts and information presented in such a way that it should be easy for just about everyone to understand and relate to.
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- 12-08-21
Inconclusive, dry and boring
If you're after a highly personal account of AF told by an IT specialist in excruciatingly irrelevant detail, including the physical layout of every hospital he's visited, with the precise dates, then this may be a selection for you.
His summary is inconclusive, and if there is anything of value, it is the various ablation treatments available he mentions in the last chapter. I honestly had to skip through most of it after listening to two or three full chapters at the start. It's like listening to someone's illness diary than exploring the disorder on a broader scope.
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