Discussion

"Explain," Kyle ordered.

He was tired of this run-around and showing images of things that he couldn't understand. Show him an ultrasound, and he could see the fetus. But this? It was as if one was looking through a badly taken photograph.

What he wanted .. what they wanted … was information. The facts. 

The cardiologist took a piece of paper from a notepad and began drawing a simple heart. An oval shape which he then drew a cross within it.

"The heart basically has four chambers," he stated, "The purpose of the heart is to take blood from the body, oxygenate it and bring it back out."

"This is done through the valve. And here," he said, drawing a circle on one side of the heart drawing, right at the line between the top and bottom, "Is a hole."