Welcome to Nathan's Cancer Journey

This blog is a reposting of Nathan's Caringbridge page which we updated throughout his battle with Neuroblastoma.

Nathan was born on June 16, 2000, diagnosed with Stage IV Neuroblastoma on April 1, 2003 and died on July 29, 2007.

I have posted the journal here to make it easier to look up by date and also to be able to easily add pictures to the journal entries.

Some of the pictures go along with the text, but many of the pictures you will see were pictures taken on the same date the journal was added, even if the pictures have nothing to do with the text. In the future I may add additional journal entries to go along with pictures to add more explanation/memories.

I am just getting started posting the years of entries and so this will be incomplete for some time. I hope to eventually also post the guestbook entries by date as a comment on the post.

Sunday, May 4, 2003

Sunday, May 4, 2003 9:43 AM CDT
Susan Here....
We are having a good weekend. Nathan is feeling just fine and playing and happy. He is hooked up to IV fluids to help keep him hydrated after the chemo. He has been good about wearing the fluids and pumps in a little backpack we got him so he can still get around. He is still eating and drinking well too.
Our friends Brian and Lori are visiting this weekend and Nathan and Julia have enjoyed the extra attention. Yesterday we went for a little hike at North Cheyenne Canyon park here in town. There is a waterfall and both kids enjoyed seeing it. Nathan was in the backpack carrier and he thought that was fun. It was nice for all of us to get out for a little hike.
 
 

Tomorrow Nathan will be getting a blood transfusion. He will hopefully get unhooked from the IV as well and he will appreciate that. They will check his blood levels in the morning to see how his white blood cell count is doing. We may also get results from his bone marrow biopsy tomorrow.
I wanted to thank you all for the cards and gifts you have sent Nathan. It really does brighten his day to get them. He now expects to get a letter everyday and so far he does get at least one and he loves it.

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