{"id":5964,"date":"2026-07-18T23:12:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jugular.org.au\/?p=5964"},"modified":"2026-07-18T23:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:12:36","slug":"heart-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jugular.org.au\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/heart-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Block"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carolyn Wang ed. Veerein Sheorayan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mobitz Type 1 (Wenckebach) is a type of second-degree heart block. It occurs when the time taken for electrical signals to travel from the atria to the ventricles lengthens with each heartbeat, eventually skipping a beat entirely. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cycle then repeats itself.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read 0.12 seconds ago.<\/em>
In my dreams I am surrounded by red string,
branching through grooves and over ridges,
dancing its way down to you.
You who sends the blood rushing to my face,
and I who watches in the mirror,
marvelling at the thrill of seeing this proof of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read 0.15 seconds ago.<\/em>
Do you know I sometimes envision myself as a hatchling\u00a0
wrapped in a sac
held frictionless in fluid.
I think you know I risk slipping.
But your hands are there like the great vessel which holds me.
I\u2019m still blushing when I look in the mirror.
Will I ever get tired of this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read 0.21 seconds ago.<\/em>
There is an oval-shaped window in the wall of my room.
When I was young I would make phones out of tin cans
and thread the wire through –
People would hear me. Can you
hear me?
I will give you one end of the phone.
The spark must go through.
Isn\u2019t it dizzying? Your landline, my lifeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read 0.30 seconds ago.<\/em>
You tell me not to sulk and I believe that it will always be us. (It\u2019s a sulcus.)
Don\u2019t pull on my heart strings – please –
Don\u2019t close yourself off when we were made for this,
for the contents of my self to spill into yours.
This is not impulse, it is nature.
I will watch the autumn leaves pile up,
wait for the cold blue blood to drain.
I will fold myself at your door, but I will be vain and selfish,
and I will skip stones across the gutter between us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delivered.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read 0.12 seconds ago.<\/em>
I am Werther. You are Lotte.
And I am beating to the thrum of the waves,
thumping over and over
come-home, come-home, come-home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mobitz Type 1 (Wenckebach) is a type of second-degree heart block. It occurs when the time taken for electrical signals to travel from the atria to the ventricles lengthens with each heartbeat, eventually skipping a beat entirely.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,39],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-5964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-originals","category-poetry","tag-originals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t