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, November 14, 2003

Friday, November 14, 2003 5:40 PM CST

Susan here..

Well - there is second hand news (from the patient financial dept. at the hospital in New York) that our insurance company is very close to agreeing to pay their "contracted rate" for Nathan's surgery. This means they would pay the amount they pay hospitals that they have a contract with and we would pay the difference. So we are crossing our fingers that this is true and we won't have to pay nearly as much as we might have!

We have arranged care for our dog with our neighbors so that is a relief. I made about a zillion phone calls today and I think we are in good shape to go.

Nathan and I met with the radiation oncologist today to plan his radiation therapy. It needs to happen in the three weeks between rounds of the antibodies. There is a good chance this will include Christmas week but the doctor said they would not be officially open on Christmas but would radiate him that day anyway. I really liked the doctor and he was very accomodating.

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