Today Kelptyn is happy to have gotten off the ventilator and the first words out of his mouth were "Las Olas" as he was requesting his favorite cup from his favorite restaurant. He is still pretty grumpy since we cannot pick him up to "snuggle dance" because he still has his lung drain attached to him. Hopefully he'll get his drain off tomorrow or the next day.
Tomorrow, Kelptyn will start some chemotherapy (since he is not responding to the steroid regimen) to hopefully knock down some lymphocytes which create the antibodies in his blood that are the most probable cause of all his clotting issues and his poor white & red blood cell production. His doctor sent more antibody tests out to the San Diego Blood Bank today to see if they can more accurately identify the specific antibody in his blood. We are hopeful that with this confirmed information we have a plan to help him over the next several weeks with the weekly chemo treatments.