Continued progress!

In the past two days they have weaned Jackson's oxygen from 42% all the way down to 30%!!!! His PIP has been weaned from 22 to 20 and his PEEP is down to five! Jackson started pressure support trials again on Wednesday and went for a little over two hours during which he kept his oxygen saturations at 99-100. Today Jackson had a four hour pressure support trial and did great. His morning blood gases continue to be outstanding. On Wednesday they also began bolus feedings into his stomach, giving him 70 ml over an hour every three hours and so far he is doing very good with this having not thrown up and also having very little residuals, just 1-2 ml leftover. Jackson is happy and smiling all the time and making tremendous progress towards getting off his vent.