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.

Friday, October 24, 2003

Friday, October 24, 2003 9:19 AM CDT

Susan here...

Nathan had his cat scan yesterday. They made him drink 12 ounces of contrast and he threw it up about 3/4 the way through. Fortunately there was enough in him for the scan to work. The cat scan will be sent to Colorado Springs for his doctor and the surgeons to look at to decide if he should have another surgery. Next Thursday he has the MIBG scan. That is the scan that shows active neuroblastoma. We are a little concerned because Nathan is having leg pain and pain when we pick him up just like he had before he was diagnosed (due to the cancer in the bone and bone marrow).

We are still determining if he can have his radiation in Colorado Springs. If he can, then we should be able to go home next weekend or shortly thereafter.

Just to make things interresting for us - our car will not start. It is in a small parking garage under the building. It should be fun trying to do something about that.

Nathan is off to the clinic this morning for bloods counts and then we will be trying to get the car fixed. One of us may go to the Springs this weekend depending on what happens with the car.

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