it most often comes in the night, when I’m trying to sleep. Lying still in my bed, I swear I can see it, this lump of muscle jumping in my chest. Langland says it’s perfectly normal. Or, if not normal, then usual. An ectopic heartbeat, he calls it. Surprisingly common, he says. Sometimes the beat is the wrong way round, and that makes you aware of your heart thumping. He demonstrated: “Instead of going de-DUM,” (he slapped his hand on the desk) “it goes DUM-de. Nothing to worry about.”
just like me!
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