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.

Thursday, September 4, 2003

Thursday, September 4, 2003 2:33 PM CDT

Susan here..

Today Nathan is feeling much better. In fact he is out of the ICU and on the pediatrics ward. He is now in room 3518.

He is very alert and interactive today and is sitting up and playing with toys. The child life specialist came by and they did some art. He is on clear liquids but he really wants a grilled cheese sandwich. He should be allowed to have solid food tomorrow.

He will have his cat scan of his sinus and neck tomorrow morning.

They will also take his epidural and urinary catheter out tomorrow. I image after that wears off they will have him up and walking.

We are happy to be on the regular ward now. He has a private room and it looks over the park and the mountains. The PICU room looked out onto the roof and parking lot but we could also see the olympic flame which resides lit at all times at the USA olymipic headquarters right next door to the hospital.

Thanks for checking in...everyone is happy with his progress and he is in good sprits.

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