On Jan. 4, just after returning to work from the holidays, 26-year-old Christopher Breene suddenly got really, really dizzy.

Breene went to the hospital, where doctors discovered that every time he would sit or stand up his heart rate went to double its normal rate. Unfortunately, though, they didn’t know why. At the time Breene was working in a relatively new job as community manager at Shaw-based iStrategyLabs (he’d started there in July 2015), and was part of the board working to help organize DC Tech Meetup. He was busy, he was driven and he didn’t have time to be sick. But over the course of the next three months, that’s exactly what his body demanded.

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