Max was admitted back in the hospital yesterday. He had an increased work of breathing all week and the doctors told me to keep an eye on it. Thursday morning I noticed it was getting worse so when we went in to the office I asked for a chest x-ray. It showed that he was holding onto a lot of fluid that was in the vessels and it was putting some strain on his heart. The actual fluid around his lungs was very small. So the doctors thought that it would be best if they kept him to be able to monitor him and work on pulling the excess fluid off.

Luckily, he was able to go back to the RCNIC, so he has the nurses that know him best. It's pretty sad though that when you walk into an ICU setting everyone knows your name. Max was very sleepy when we went up to be admitted, but as soon as we walk in and all the familiar faces came to see him, he just laughed and smiled like it was no big deal! It's like he was saying...."I'm back!!!" Such a booger!

The doctors are hoping that this is a very short stay. As long as they can get the fluid off and get his breathing back to a normal pace, he should be good to go. I am just very thankful for the education that we got while we were in the RCNIC the first time. Some people would not have thought twice about something like this. I am just glad that we got that x-ray and we caught it before something really bad happened.

Needless to say, Max gets to spend a few extra days with all of his girlfriends at Children's, which they all love!!!

Please, keep him in your prayers that all goes well and that he is back home with us in a few days. I told his nephrology fellow Ben, that he has to be home for his mommy's birthday on Monday! Keeping my fingers crossed!