“Jodie, me and almost the entire Cortez family (minus little Joey and plus Max’s Great Grandma Dolly) are here today at the hospital, taking turns seeing the little cutie.”

“His nurse from yesterday and today is Carrie, who we really like. She let us know that he is doing about the same … his oxygen is around 21-22%, which is right around what we normally breathe. His blood pressure has fluctuated a little, he is still only on dopamine at 4.”

“Jodie is excited to see that his little trigger light has been going off quite a few times today … especially when my sister Margie was with him. Seems he knows who gave us those really good cookies when she was pregnant ”

“The RN also mentioned that he did well on his eye exam this morning. He still didn’t necessarily like it, but was much less resistant than previously. She did notice some yellowish tears, but thinks this is related to the jaundice.”

“Still have so many pictures that I need to upload, but the hospital wireless is not working right now and this is where we are most of the time nowadays.”

Jodie is at the hospital almost all of today with Max and she just texted me the following update: “He looks a little less puffy the nurse and I think … I love this little guy! Oh he’s still only 4 on dopamine and they put his lipids back on. Nothing other than that.”

“Jodie, Steph and Colby are at the hospital now … baby Max is off of the dobutamine entirely and his catheter is out (so he has a diaper on). I am going to see if I can leave work early to join them soon.”

“Just talked to Max’s Resident Nurse for the day, Jody, and his condition is still the same … I think her exact words were ‘status quo’. Both his dopamine and dobutamine are low (4 and 2, respectively), but they haven’t weaned him off of any more dobutamine because his blood pressure hasn’t been consistent at the level where they want it (at an average of 45).”

“He had his abdominal ultrasound this morning and should have the results back this afternoon. One of the reasons for this ultrasound is to see what issue he is having with his liver. They suspect a problem because of him not responding to the billirubin lights (besides getting a tan) and because they had to take him off of the lipids the day before yesterday (because his levels were too high … i.e. not being processed effectively).”

“At least today and tomorrow I have to teach until 9PM and even though Colby is awesome and been available to Jodie to the hospital each day, I am sure they both would enjoy any additional visitors between now and then.”