The next time you interact with another human being on the bus, at the checkout, or on the phone, waves of adrenaline flood your body all the same, resulting in a racing heart, faltering voice and glowing red cheeks.
As the heart falters, the body releases adrenaline to keep the organ pumping.
Nursing Rona and Cynthia Millage were shocked to learn about the death of Mario Nelson, the AIDS patient whose nurse had failed to notice his heart faltering in October.
And where faint hearts falter, the bold may be rewarded.
As the sympathetic nervous system flogs the heart more and more, the heart can falter.
It was in the last hours of his life, though, when his heart and lungs faltered and eventually failed, that Lieutenant Carpluk may have fought his most valiant battle, along with a team of doctors at two hospitals who worked to save him.
Then there was the late, great Ruffian, the high-strung filly that broke the nation's heart when she faltered during a match race with 1975 Kentucky Derby winner Foolish Pleasure.
A similar effort to match Beatles music to a story, the movie "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," faltered in 1978.
The faulty component is an electrical "lead," or a wire that connects the heart to a defibrillator, a device that shocks faltering hearts back into normal rhythm.
The music seems like a reprise of "Batter my heart," but it falters after two bars.
