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, October 2, 2003

Thursday, October 2, 2003 3:05 PM CDT

Susan here..

Well things aren't quite as rosy today. Nathan started having diarrhea last night and has had severla bouts. He is now on isolation which means he can't leave his room and the nurses have to wear gloves at all times and we have to change gowns to go in and out of his room. They are doing a stool culture to see what is going on. Diarrhea is not at all unexpected considering all he is going through and being on 4 antibiotics. He is now on a 5th one for the diarrhea. His fever keeps going up and down. Don't really know why for that either. He has retained alot of fluids and is on a diuretic to help flush it out. This caused his blood counts to read too low this morning and his ANC was only around 9! They will recheck this afternoon. No one is concered because they feel the 9 was directly caused by the fluid retention. They still think he will be released early next weeek. He is just sleeping all day today. He had blood and platelets this morning and his fever is back up so I think he feels crummy. Last night we did a lot of playing before bed and he was quite perked up. We'll see what tomorrow brings.

I will add on to the end of this entry tonight when we know his evening blood counts.

Ok - his ANC was 107 tonight. Much better. It will be very interresting to see where it is in the morning. He started having more diarrhea tonight. He was feeling not top bad though.

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