Mom was breathing on her own today and they said they were going to pull the tube out and they did around early afternoon, only she had a lot of trouble and so by this evening she was back on the ventilator. I had set up in my mind that she had to get off this ventilator because only then would she be making progress to get better, but I had to back off of those expectations and accept the fact that she is doing pretty good but she needs the ventilator right now.