Lying on my back, only my nose pokes above the water. Breathe in, my chest rises and my body gently floats; breathe out, and everything falls ever so slightly. My eyes are closed; I am weightless, suspended, motionless.
Breathe in; hold. Listen.
There it is. Ba-bum ba-bum, ba-bum, ba-bum.
For years I could not hear my own h…