Further on Day 1

The medical team rounded this morning. Dr. Mumtaz, the second surgeon, said that they were particularly pleased to find that Bayla's valve (pumonary, I assume) was a "beautiful 4-leaf," as opposed to something irregular. They hope to have her breathing tube out within the next 24 hours.

Dr. Rosenthal, the attending cardiologist, says that his overall "gestalt" was that Bayla was doing very, very well. This is perhaps the only English sentence using the term that I have been happy to hear.

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