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.

Wednesday, July 16, 2003

Wednesday, July 16, 2003 7:47 PM CDT

Susan here

Nathan finally started chemo today. He had a good day. They had some construction trucks a nurse had brought in and he played with those a whole lot. I had bought foam mats to put on the floor so he layed on the floor and played with trucks most of the day. He is very tired this evening but not yet nauseous. That should occur tomorrow.

We have our consultation with the surgeons tomorrow afternoon. Luke is doing chemo with Nathan tomorrow and I will meet them for the consult.

He had to have his dressing changed on his catheter today again. We are struggling to keep it nice and tight in the hot weather. He expects a present every time he gets his dressing changed and so that is getting hard. We are having to give him small things so we aren't overtaken by toys. He is much less scared about the dressing changes now so that is worth it.

I am just so relieved to have finally started chemo again so we can move forward.

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