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.

Sunday, August 3, 2003

Sunday, August 3, 2003 3:23 PM CDT
Susan here..
We are having a good weekend. Friday Nathan had a red blood transfusion as well as a platelet transfusion. His counts though a little tiny bit higher are still low enough that he needed to stay at home this weekend.
On Saturday Nathan spent the morning at home with Luke while I took Julia to by shoes (unsuccessfully). He and Luke made chocolate cookies around lunch time and then we spent the afternoon hanging around. This morning we went for a hike and a picnic. There is a beautiful park with hiking trails through the forest and also nice grassy areas with big trees so we had a lot of fun.
Tomorrow Nathan will have his echocardiogram and EKG followed by a visit to the clinic to check his counts. He is due to start Chemo on Wednesday but it is highly unlikely that his white blood cell count and platelet count will have recovered to the proper levels to begin chemo by then. Maybe he will be able to play with his friends this week. That is the one upside to him not making counts.
I have put some new pictures in the photo album and the family page is updated for July as well.

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