I checked into the hospital emergency room last night with heart palpitations. I’ve had them my whole life, but usually they only last a few seconds and come very infrequently, maybe once a month. This weekend they just wouldn’t stop. Every twenty minutes or so my heart would do a double beat and my chest and head would feel flooded with blood. Gross! And scary. And in between, my heartbeat was unusually ‘loud’ and heavy. It was very disconcerting. By Sunday afternoon I had c