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.

Tuesday, December 23, 2003

   Tuesday, December 23, 2003 6:55 AM CST

Susan here...

I'll start with Saturday night. After our fun day Nathan started feeling hot in the evening. By 9:00 he reached 38 degrees celsius which is the magic number and so we called the fellow on call and had to drag Nathan out of bed to get blood samples taken from his broviak to check for infection. He was very sad to be taken from his nice warm bed out for a stroller ride to the hospital but calmed down when he got to lie in a bed. We were sprung at about midnight and strolled back home and went to bed.

Sunday we took it easy. After naptime both kids wanted to go somewhere and so we went to my Aunt's place and hung out and had dinner with them and said goodbye.

Yesterday Luke took Nathan to the clinic. They got a late start on the antibodies and being a Monday and havin 2 days off it was harder for him today. He had 4 bouts of diarrhea and threw up. He came home and had some lunch and watched some tv. After a while he went back into the bedroom and watched a movie and bed and then he had a pretty good evening.

Today Luke is taking Nathan again and Julia and I will go find somthing to do. Yesterday we did some shopping and had lunch. It was fun having lunch with just her and sitting across the table from her.

Tomorrow I will go with Nathan and Thursday is a day off and then I will go with him on Friday and he will have a bone marrow aspiration before his treatment. Saturday we fly home!

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