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

the great arteries, switched them, and reconnected them to their proper ventricles. Then I repaired the VSD and reimplanted the coronary arteries in their correct positions.

Every stitch had to be perfect. One mistake, and this child could die on my table.

At 4:17 a.m., I placed the final suture.

“Closing,” I announced.

By 5:30 a.m., Charlie was stable continue reading …