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.

Tuesday, September 2, 2003

Tuesday, September 2, 2003 3:34 PM CDT

Luke here...Nathan is recovering from his surgery and doing well. He has been awake some, but he is mostly sleeping things off so far. The surgery went very well (or so we are told) and the results are as good as we could have asked for. The surgeons won't guarantee they got all of the tumor, but they feel they got most of it and got everything that they could see or find. The tumor had been adhered to the right kidney and they cauterized the tissue in the area where the tumor had been attached. It isn't clear to us now if there was anything sizable left there. We will drill for more details later, but the good news is that they feel they got most if not all of the tumor and Nathan is doing well and recovering. We will be in the PICU tonight. We can both stay here with him. He could be in the PICU until tomorrow, or longer if necessary. His stay will probably be somewhere in the 4 - 7 day range. We'll continue to post about his recovery. We knew people would be checking in about the surgery, so we wanted to let everyone know the good news now.

Thanks for keeping Nathan in your thoughts and prayers.

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