Small steps

Small improvements today. Austin has been taken off the ventilator and is only on supplemental O2. The levels are being decreased so he is much closer to breathing only room air. We keep getting told that the bigger babies improve very quickly once the breathing is sorted out.

They clamped off the chest tube with the thought that the pneumothorax is completely drained. If it does not reoccur they will remove the tube in the next day or two. His color looked a bit better and he looked a little more relaxed. Fingers crossed.