Clear skies ahead!?

I'm so sorry it took me so long to update, but I wanted to wait and make sure things were stable before I said anything. We spoke to the neonatologist yesterday afternoon and we came up with a plan of action. We decided that since there's no immediate reason to give him a trach, we have a little time to try and go about this differently. We are first going to try to wean his settings and get him on the VapoTherm by next week, without steroids. If it doesn't happen, we'll try to wean him again after a course of steroids. If all else fails, he'll have to get a trach. Yesterday they lowered his vent settings a little in the afternoon, and while we were visiting him last night they lowered his settings even more, and not only is he tolerating the changes, he's doing better than he was before they changed everything. All of his levels are great- better than they've ever been. He is sating well and doin his thing. He is still tolerating his feeds and pooping like he should. We don't want to get to excited, but it's really encouraging to see him do so well.