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, September 6, 2003

Saturday, September 6, 2003 3:11 PM CDT
Susan here..
Nathan is home and doing great. Yesterday he got up to walk and had no problems. He went to the playroom to play and he was clibming on chairs. Last night was not good. He didn't sleep very much. His bowels are working again and they were bothering him and he could not get comfortable.
He was released around 11:00 today and is happy to be home.
On the news front there is quite a bit. First - the big news is that transplant is scheduled for Sept. 16. Yes - we got 11 days notice. We are glad it is happening but we have a lot to figure out (including Julia's care) in the next couple of days. No one expected it to be this soon.
Nathan's tumor was 99.9ancer free. His doctor saw only the smallest portion of viable cancer in it. We are still waiting on the bone marrow results.
This week will be filled with tests. He has about 6 or so tests to be scheduled between Mon-Thurs and then has to go to Children's hospital in Denver on Friday for some tests. The following Tuesday he checks in.
Needless to say Luke and I are very overwhelmed with figuring out preparations. We will start in ernest tomorrow.
We'll keep you updated.

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