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.

Monday, November 17, 2003

Monday, November 17, 2003 8:43 PM CST

Luke here...I should probably write more than I will have tne energy to do, but here goes. Today was a very good travel day. We left home at about 8:30am. When we got to the Jet Center in Denver the pilots came out to the curb, introduced themselves, and took care of our baggage. Our flight left on-time at around 11:00am. After Carolyn dropped us off, we realized we had forgotten Nathan's car seat. This was no big deal for the flight, but we knew the car service wouldn't drive us without it. The pilot of the flight called the flight center in Morristown and had someone run out and buy us a booster seat while we were in flight. If you have never travelled in a corporate jet, I strong recommend it. It was an incredible way to travel. The jet was very nice. There were only two executives on the flight and they sat in the front. We had four seats, two across from one another facing with a table inbetween. The seats were big and suede and everything was nice polished wood. The flight attendant made us lunch and everyone made sure Nathan had a good time. He loved it. He was thrilled by the whole experience. The car was waiting for us and we had a quicker drive into the city than we thought we would have. We are staying for a couple of nights with friends of Susan's aunt and uncle who live in the same building and have extra space. It is really nice of them to have us and we all had a very nice dinner. Nathan had a great day and even though it was long, it was an easy travel day. We got some good pictures of Nate on the plane. We have two days to sight see and have a good time and then we go to see the surgeon on Thursday morning and Friday is the big day.

Today was fun and exciting, and a little sad. Julia handled our departure pretty well from what we could tell, but we really don't want to be away from her. Tonight in Nathan's bath he said, "I wish Julia came with us". We'll all be together soon again and in the meantime we are going to have a good couple of days here in New York before we get the fight started again.

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