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Here is the latest addition to the Lewallen family – my son Raymond “Drew” Lewallen.

He was born 7 lbs, 10 oz and 22 in. on March 8th, 2006 at 11:58 am.

Now for a little bit of explanation for what’s going on in the above picture.  Baby Drew isn’t doing very well right now.  Actually, he is doing very poorly indeed and doesn’t have a very positive outlook right now, but we are hoping to change all that.  He was born with some serious complications and is currently on a heart/lung bypass machine that does his breathing and pumping for him.  Also, he’s really StayPuff Marshmallow Man-like in the picture because they pump a lot of extra fluids into him.  Those 2 red tubes up by his head are tubes that go directly into his Super VenaCava vein and go down into his heart.  They carry blood to the ECMO (the heart/lung bypass machine) and back for him.

That’s pretty much the gist of it.  He has quite a few serious complications and a very long and difficult road ahead of him but those are stories for another day.