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, June 24, 2004

Thursday, June 24, 2004 7:15 PM CDT

Hello -

well the dental stuff went ok. He ended up with 12 crowns which is all but his 8 front teeth. He is a little sore but doing well with it. As usual, he was very upset and irrational when he woke up from anesthesia.

As we waited in the waiting room this morning we were entertained by a mouse in the waiting room...not really want you want in a hospital!

Excitement in our house yesterday was that we got a new van. After 8 years our car had lots of problems and we have an upcoming driving trip to Illinois. We didn't get home until 10:00 last night and had to wake up the kids early. It will be good to get them to bed tonight so we can do the same. I have a cold and it seems Nathan is getting it too.

He is going to have a creatine clearance test (which is a urine collection test) next week to see how his kidney funtion is. His blood counts were good. The blood draw wasa bit traumatic because he has to get used to getting poked now.

We are looking forward to the picnic. Unfortunately it looks like it might rain but we will be under the pavillion and will make the best of it. Thanks to everyone who has RSVPd.

On a personal note I have many many emails I need to respond to and just haven't had a chance so...Louise, Judy, Angie, Tonya, Myndi, Denise, Janene, Joan and Ashley (and I am sure more that I can't come up with right now) I will try to get back to you as soon as I can but I am not ignoring you!

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