A little closer.

Today's visit with Max was fairly uneventful, which is always a good thing.

He had managed to pull out the feeding tube that was in his nose sometime last night, and they had since been inserting the tube down his throat during each feeding the way they had originally done. Now, when Max gets a new nurse, they don't always know all the ins and outs of Max's personality and what he is and is not willing to tolerate. He hates having that feeding tube threaded down his throat almost as much as he hates the CPAP - which is why they had one semi-permanently in his nose. They don't normally put the feeding tube through the nose while kids are still on CPAP, because it's too bulky to have two things in one nostril, but it improved his mood during feeds so substantially that they decided to stick with it. So, today after he had a major episode - gags, sputters and other dramatics - following the insertion of that feeding tube, we advised the nurse to just go back to the nose. Hopefully for Max, and the sanity of his nurses, she'll do just that.

Other than that, Max was great today. His oxygen requirements are still quite low and they reduced the amount of pressure with which the CPAP is delivering said oxygen. So, Max is well on his way to being back on those snazzy, clear nose prongs.

We visited him again later in the evening and were greeted to Max being at 21% (room air) on his CPAP.  What was most amazing about this is that he was at this level with only 1 prong in his nose; he managed to wiggle mostly out of it and was doing quite well with half the help he had earlier in the day.  We were very proud of him and he dipped only when Rafael tried to adjust the prongs. He REALLY hates them.