“Interesting case,” the cardiologist said. “You usually don’t want to be interesting.”
Photo-Illustration: by Intelligencer; Photo Getty Images One Tuesday last month, I found myself strapped to a gurney on the windy tarmac of a small airport outside the mountain town of Mammoth Lakes, California, a standard-issue face mask concealing the oxygen tubes lodged in my nostrils and a hint of tightness in the center of my chest. A team of flight paramedics was preparing to put me in a small medical plane to fly me over Lake Tahoe to a hospital in Reno, Nevada.
By six the next morning, I found myself writhing around in bed, fruitlessly searching for a position that might ease the suffering, at which point Ellie insisted I go to the emergency room. A born-and-raised New Yorker, she doesn’t exactly describe herself as a confident driver, so I drove us, gripping the wheel with one hand and my chest with the other, all while trying to convince myself I wasn’t having a heart attack.
Eager to follow up with a cardiologist back in New York — and by now thoroughly convinced that the vacation was unsalvageable — we bumped our flight up. I managed to finagle an appointment the following week with a cardiologist, who reviewed my already-exhaustive testing and ordered a cardiac MRI, which helped him settle on the original diagnosis: myocarditis. “Interesting case,” he said. “You usually don’t want to be interesting.
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