Gisel Tafolla is enjoying the happy times of raising her baby daughter, just three months after surviving a harrowing medical emergency.
The 26-year-old Delhi mother gives credit to the lifesaving measures of medical professionals at Emanuel hospital in Turlock and Doctors Medical Center in Modesto — and to what’s known as the world’s smallest heart pump.
Gisel arrived at 5:30 a.m. July 26 at the Turlock hospital for a routine gallbladder operation, but things went terribly wrong because of a rare heart condition she didn’t know about. She was airlifted to the Modesto hospital around 1 p.m…