She still has a cough. The chest X-ray today shows clear lung fields and a bulky heart. There are some residua of middle lobe infiltration. We plan to get a nasopharyngeal swab to check for RSV and if this sample is negative I think we can proceed with definitive repair later this week. The radiologist had a different interpretation of the May 2 chest X-ray.
Abnormal densities persist in the left lower lobe as well, essentially unchanged.
The appearance of the heart is not changed in the interval. Reed also testified that he did not believe her pneumonia was an unexpected abnormality, in light of the cancellation of surgery two weeks earlier because of an infection. Reed's report was written and distributed on May 4, the day before Alyssa's scheduled operation. It does not appear that either Odim or Giddins read this report before Alyssa's surgery. Nor were the Stills made aware of Reed's report.