Living with an anomaly

doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7550.1141-a

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Charles Briscoe (c.briscoe@paston.co.uk), retired anaesthetist

Buxton, Norwich

The first indication I had that something was wrong was when I went to my prep school and found myself quite unable to keep up on cross country runs. Paradoxically, I excelled at soccer and won the school hurdles. This inconsistency did not concern anyone until, in my early teens, I had a day-long attack of paroxysmal tachycardia. There was no treatment for this in 1952, so I made an unlikely bargain with God that if he stopped it I would never bet or gamble except on horses. He kept his side of the bargain, so I had …