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.

Monday, June 16, 2003

Monday, June 16, 2003 7:04 PM CDT

Susan here...

A long day in chemo today. We were there from 9:15 until 5:00. Nathan was very good as usual. I brought his wooden train and set it up on the floor for him and we also played with many other things. He is very tired now. Tomorrow will be harder I imagine. The doctors and nurses at the clinic sung happy birthday to him and gave him some matchbox cars.

Today they collected some urine to use in a test that detects levels of neuroblastoma. He had this test on diagnosis and decided to submit it again. The protocol here in this town is to collect it for 24 hours which would have required a catheter. Fortunately his DR. just moved here and they didn't always do it that way where he used to practice and so he convinced the lab to take a spot sample instead. I was very thankful for that.

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