"Will my children inherit this?"
I was born on the 17th August in 1983 at around 8pm. My Mother went into labour when she was opening her birthday presents (yes that's right, I was the best present ever!), and I wanted to get in on the action, despite not being due for another week. My sister was a premature baby and therefore came into the world 'via the sunroof', as I like to say. As such, that meant I too took the same exit route. As far as I am aware, I was a healthy baby. The usual bugs, viruses and infections, but nothing to write home about. However when I turned 14, things started to decline. I began develop palpitations in my early teens. Initially I had no clue what it was, it just felt like a small butterfly had flown into my chest for a mere second and then disappeared, but three years later, they were much stronger, more frequent and lasted up to 5 hours, at their longest. It felt like my heart would beat out of my chest at times, I could literally feel it rocking/swaying a...