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, August 4, 2003

Monday, August 4, 2003 8:42 PM CDT

Susan here...

Today was busy but good. Nathan had his echocrdigram and EKG and did well with both. We should have the results tomorrow. They are just making sure his heart is doing OK before he starts the next round of chemo. He has had a little damage from orevious rounds but is still in the low side of normal as far as function.

After the tests we had some time to kill and so Nathan and I went out to lunch. I just assumed his immunity was OK. We went to the clinic afterwards and his counts are finally all the way up. His platelets were higher than expected and might actually be up enough to start chemo on Wednesday as scheduled. We will go in Wednesday morning and see if he can start then. If not he will start on Monday.

His stiches are looking alot better. He will finish his antibiotics and see how it looks then.

Tomorrow we will go do something fun since if he starts chemo on Wednesday it will be his only chance this round.

For some of you who don't know Nathan..he loves construction equipment. He knows what everything is. Anyway the highlight of his day was that there was a "ditch witch" parked in the parking lot of the clinic. It is a small tractor with what looks like a big saw on it. He talked about the saw truck the rest of the day.

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