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.

Thursday, May 15, 2003

Thursday, May 15, 2003 6:20 PM CDT
Susan here...
Nathan had his blood counts checked this afternoon. His white blood cell count is way up and so his immunity is high now. His platelet and red blood counts are fine and so he doesn't need a blood transfusion tommorow. That means he can go play with his friends tomorrow instead of sitting in the clinic! The first thing the doctor said when he saw Nathan's counts was that he wanted to do another bone marrow aspiration ASAP. So he will have one on Tuesday. The doctor is hopeful that is good counts mean the bone marrow may be clean. Of course - they thought that last time and it wasn't and so we are not holding our breath. As I mentioned before he will have a CAT scan on Monday. After that he will go to the clinic and get his blood counts taken to get an idea if his platelet level will be high enough to start round 3 of chemo on Tuesday.
So - we get three days to play and have fun!

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