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.

Friday, June 20, 2003

Friday, June 20, 2003 1:36 PM CDT

Susan here..

We just got back from the cat scan. Nathan did great. It was just a Cat scan of his sinuses and took only 2 minutes and so they didn't want to sedate him. We talked about it before we left this morning and he was really upset, but when it came time to do it he did it without sedation. When he comes out of sedation he is cranky and acts drunk and is very wobbly for several hours. So instead he can enjoy his afternoon and we are so happy about that.

DCP_1716He is still feeling sick at night. He threw up in the middle of the night last night. Today he seems fine but isn't really hungry. Since he was without food due to the potential sedation - it was a good thing, but we hope his appetite comes back so he doesn't have to go on supplemental nutrition.

We are back in the clinic on Monday and expect that he will need some transfusions next week.

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