"Well. I had a heart murmur when I was a baby, and it was okay until I was six-ish and started getting worse so when I was seven I had surgery to get the valve replaced. I was in the hospital for a while. I kind of made a joke about it when I got here because I forgot he didn't know."

She shakes out a fresh pair of pants to fold. "Anyway I have to take blood thinners because of something to do with the fake valve, and at some point I have to have another surgery to replace the one I've got because it won't be big enough forever. So... My dad back home is at least like, used to that? Here not so much."