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.

Saturday, August 9, 2003

Saturday, August 9, 2003 10:20 AM CDT

Susan here...

Friday's chemo went relatively well. Nathan really did not want to go and he was feeling kind of sick but he didn't complain too much. He got sick in the car on the way to the clinic. He really seemed to start feeling better when he started eating at the clinic. He ate a whole bagel and a banana (that a staff member went and got for him). He took a 1.5 hour nap in the afternoon and when he woke up his tummy hurt but we gave him some benedryl and that seemed to do the trick. We were done around 3:45. He ate a grilled cheese sandwich when we got home and watched some TV. He went to bed a little early and slept all night with no incidents.

This morning he has been feeling pretty good and ate half a can of spaghetti-o's and a banana. While he was eating his spaghetti-o's he complained because Julia was eating a pop-tart and he could smell it. Go Figure. So anyway - he hasn't thrown up since yesterday morning and is eating well so that is good.

We have no idea yet what we are going to do today. Nathan is hooked up to his IV backpack for hydration and so that is a little bit limiting for him.

Nathan's doctor told us we should have his bone marrow biopsy results on Monday. Of course it seems we don't ever get these results when they think we will - so don't hold your breath!

I hope all of you have a good weekend.

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