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.

Wednesday, October 1, 2003

Wednesday, October 1, 2003 2:08 PM CDT

Susan here...

Just a brief update for now. The big news is that Nathan's stem cells have engrafted. His ANC (basically his immunity level) is 218 today up from 33 yesterday. When it reaches 500 for two days and there are no fevers he will be released. He still does have a fever today. They said he might get out as early as Friday but Monday would be more realistic. Of course there are many factors which could keep him in longer so we won't get our hopes up but we are just so glad his bone marrow is starting to do its job!

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