At Sunday dinner, Dad told 23 relatives: “She’s wo…

I haven’t lost a patient yet.”

She squeezed my hand. “Then I trust you completely.”

The surgery began at 11:42 p.m. My team was phenomenal: Dr. Ranjit Patel on anesthesia, Dr. Amanda Foster assisting, nurse Margaret O’Brien running the OR like a well-oiled machine. The arterial switch went smoothly despite the unusual coronary anatomy. I carefully detached continue reading …