He is smaller than most and has encountered more than most, but each time his spirit preservers through a humanistic hell that we all touch at some point in our lives. His body gets bent, twisted, poked, aches, oozes, bruises, and bleeds all the while his spirit gets a little higher.
The silver lining today is that his mono virus has dropped off significantly (almost to a not detectable level in the blood anymore), Kelptyn has not needed any blood transfusions for 6 days, the sores in Kelptyn's mouth look a little bit better, and today he will finally get the lung drain pulled out. We are hopeful that the week that lies ahead will continue in a forward momentum as the chemo treatment continues to calm his battlefield.