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Summary: Hospital for evaluation, and the situation was bleak. He had his first open heart surgery at only 3 days old to try and remove the tumor. It was unsuccessful. They placed him on a heart and lung bypass machine to keep him alive - a heart transplant was our only hope. The rest of the story is contained in the links below, but as you can see from his smiling face he is

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