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, December 19, 2003

Friday, December 19, 2003 4:21 PM CST

Susan here..

I went with Nathan today. It was better than yesterday and he handled everything well. When it was time to go he got to see Santa at the clinic and he told Santa what he wanted. Santa asked if he wanted anything else and he told Santa to make sure to bring presents for Julia too.

We get two days off now!!

Yesterday afternoon (late) Nathan told us he wanted to ride the bus. Instead we rode the subway and went to Rockefeller Center and saw the big Christmas tree. Both kids enjoyed themselves and the tree was very pretty.

Not sure what all we will do tomorrow. Nathan wants to go to a candy store (there is one very nearby) and I suppose we will go out and about somewhere else. We will definitely let Nathan lounge around in his pajamas for as long a he likes. He deserves it!

Oh yeah - I keep forgetting to mention that we have plane tickets home on the 27th. There is a slight chance that Nathan will have to stay a little longer but we will be trying our hardest to make the 27th happen.


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