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.

Wednesday, December 3, 2003

Wednesday, December 3, 2003 7:30 PM CST

Susan here...

Nathan and I had an adventure filled day. Luke left to go work and after breakfast Nathan and I hopped on a bus and sent to Times Square. There is a huge Toys R Us there with a ferris wheel inside. Nathan really enjoyed riding it and looking at all the toys. He picked out a Care Bear to give Julia for Christmas. After we left we had some lunch and took the subway to my Aunt's apartment. We went the round about way since shen we transferred I got on the train going the wrong way. I was too preoccupied in trying to find an elevator that I wasn't paying close enough attention. Nathan thouroghly enjoyed the bus and subway rides and I did too though carrying him, bags and a stroller up and down stairs in the subway was very hard. When we got to my aunt's Nathan excitedly told Luke all about our adventures. We hung out there the rest of the afternoon and Nathan didn't want to nap and so he was about to fall over by the time we got back to the Ronald McDonald House. He is now fast asleep.

On Monday I called the clinic to see what was up with his test being scheduled and had to leave a message and was not called back. I called again this morning and found out the the inpatient doctors were supposed to have scheduled all the test before they discharged him. So...his MIGB injection will be tomorrow and the scan on Friday afternoon (which means no food all day for NAthan...that will be awful). He also needs an echocardiogram and a cat scan of his head. Those will be done this week or next. Since they squeezed in the MIBG scan for Friday he should still be on schedule to start on the 15th unless his test results say otherwise. We are hoping to have some pathology results from the tumor and bone marrow they took during the surgery.

I have a feeling that between his surgery post-op appointment tomorrow and his infection appointment in the afternoon that we will spend most of the day in the clinic. At least we got a week's break from it all.



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