Living with heart arrhythmia is hard to explain. I have an implanted defibrillator to prevent death in case of fibrillation and, yes, sure, not dying is great. But doctors and people around me think "Well, you're ok then". But I am not. Having arrhythmias means feeling your heart nearly at every moment every day, it means feeling when it does not beat regularly, it means feeling and know every day and every minute of my life that life is fucking fragile. it takes a terrible toll on me...#heart

Anybody else here with a heart condition? Arrhythmia, heart failure, ICD and under 45 years old?
#heart #heartfailure #arryhthmia #defibrillator #herzkrank #Herzinsuffizienz

#introduction
Hey, hello! I am new here with this profile, but not new to the place. I have a profile with my real name, but I feel like I want to be freer to talk about some personal stuff, so, to protect myself in these dire times, it needs to be anonymous.
I am an academic in the humanities, struggling with the nepotism, precarity and citation networks. I am also disabled, with a (physically) broken heart... And, sadly, a newly discovered love for cocktails. I love cats, but don't have -->