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margaret atwood Has shared many details about his long-term heart condition.
85 year old author of maid story And cat’s eye Reveals about his health in his new memoir, life Book,
Writing about her Covid experience, the Canadian author said that she has been infected with the virus more than once. He wrote, “It was unpleasant, but it had no lasting effect.”
However, at the same time, Atwood developed a “parallel illness” related to her heart, which she called “galloping atrial fibrillation”.
Atrial fibrillation is a heart arrhythmia that causes an irregular heartbeat.
“I had had an irregular heartbeat since the age of 12 – nothing to worry about, I was told, although it was disturbing at times,” he wrote.
“I have now developed galloping atrial fibrillation, a progressive condition that cannot be cured. At first, medication controlled it a little, though, over time, not nearly enough.”
Atwood further stated that she did not know when an episode might lead to a “shock”, adding: “My heart would go up to 165, then drop down to 35, and my heart would stop for 10 seconds.”
On how the condition affected her life, she wrote: “As long as I had a chair and a table, I could attend public events without falling over.
“I would tilt my head to one side, as if I were thinking deep thoughts, when in reality I was just passing out for a while.”
Atwood had A new pacemaker will be implanted in late 2023 And continues to control her condition with a drug that has an unusual side effect.
“Should I spend too much time in the sun, [it] Will turn me blue,” she wrote. “Not the uniform Smurfy blue, which would look cute, but more like your face if you walked into a wall. So I wear sunblock and wide-brimmed hats, but still, I did it.”
Writing about her health, Atwood concluded: “Sooner or later, the body will decide to go on an adventure on its own, no matter what I wish. But so far, we’re still together.”
The author’s issues of the heart have been the focus of several poems, including “The Woman Who Couldn’t Live with Her Faulty Heart” (1978) and “Heart” (2007).
Elsewhere in her memoir, Atwood talks about her cameo in the hit TV adaptation his novel maid storyIn which Elisabeth Moss plays the lead role of Offred.
The scene in question required Atwood to slap Moss’ character across the face. “We did this scene four times because I wasn’t spanking hard enough,” she wrote. “It’s a surreal moment when your leading lady says, ‘Go ahead! Slap me harder!’
Finally, a sound effect was added to the moment to emphasize the slap. Atwood wrote, “It’s not actually Offred’s neck being torn off.”
In a career spanning more than six decades, Atwood has won numerous awards for her writing. She is a two-time recipient of the Booker Prize, winning the award in 2000 for her 10th novel. blind killer, and again in 2019 Testamentsequel to 1984 maid story,