Today was another good day as far as Pearson making progress.  They are continuing to wean him off of his meds as well as his conventional ventilator.  One of the medicines they are slowly taking him off of is his sedation medicine, which means he is becoming more aware of all the tubes, especially the one in his mouth.  This has made him alot more restless and fussy and causes him to gag more as well.  He is also moving around alot more, which causes the mucous in his chest to loosen up, and when it builds up it causes him to feel like he is drowning.  The nurse then has to suction him, which is where they put a tool into the tubes down in his throat and suction out the mucous.  He feels much better once they do this, but it is so pitiful and hard to watch him cry, gag, and squirm when he starts having that drowning feeling.  He had a rough day with this a couple days ago, and then yesterday was better, but today was a little worse again, so he didn't rest a whole lot.  He was pretty unhappy, but luckily his stats stayed good, so they were able to continue with lowering the oxygen level he was receiving from the ventilator.  Eventually, when he is able to come off of the ventilator, he will then be on a c-pap, and then the oxygen tubes that just go in your nose like you see some people have.  Once he gets to the oxygen tubes in his nose and remains stable we will get to finally hold him.  Unfortunately, we aren't sure when that will be still, because it just all depends on how well Pearson does and how fast his lungs develop. Let's continue to pray for those little lungs of his! I know we aren't the only ones who are ready to hold this precious angel! We love you all and thank you for the wonderful and encouraging comments! We look forward to reading them everyday!