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.

Tuesday, May 20, 2003

Tuesday, May 20, 2003 8:38 PM CDT

Susan here...

Nathan's surgery went well. He was very good about not getting to eat and drink. He had a bit of a hard time coming off of the anesthesia but by the time we came home he wanted to walk around and play. He is in bed now just chatting away to himself happily.

They managed to put in a Broviak that was bigger than the last one so that hopefully they can use it to harvest his stem cells.

We asked his doctor about the CAT scan and he had seen the report but not the image yet and said that the report shows the tumor is shrinking but he will be able to tell us how much when he actually sees the scan - so hopefully he will tell us tomorrow. The bone marrow results will hopefully be ready by Friday before we leave the clinic.

Tomorrow we are off to chemo. We are prepared for the worst but hoping he isn't too sick from it. It could be a very long 3 days. Luke will go with Nathan on Thursday and I will go again on Friday.

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