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, December 4, 2003

Thursday, December 4, 2003 4:36 PM CST

Susan here...

Nathan and I had a very long day. We spent the whole day in the clinic. He saw the surgeons, had a chest xray, had an echocardigram, saw the oncologist and had his MIBG injection (through his broviak). He is recovering well from a surgical standpoint.

His bone marrow aspirates and cores were all negative for neuroblastoma. YAY! The tumor itself had parts with active neuroblastoma which we fully expected.

Tomorrow he will have his MIBG scan in the afternoon. He won't be able to eat after 7:00am so it wil be a long day of him begging for food. On Tuesday he goes back and will have a small IV placed in his leg just under the skin thet will remain in during treatment. They will administer a drug that way.

We hope to move to the apartment tomorrow but there is a big snowstorm coming so we will have to see if we are able to move or not. I put the new address on the page. We are planning on shipping a lot of things back to Colorado Springs and are not limiting our Christmas presents for the kids.

I am sure there is more info but I am brain dead now so I will write more tomorrow.

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