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, January 30, 2004

Friday, January 30, 2004 6:48 PM CST

We are done! Whew! Good to have another round finished. Today's treatment went ok. Nathan had a little more pain than usual but no medical events.

Nathan had a good nap when we got home and after a meal of spaghettios we went to Best Buy and then to a coffe shop. Nathan had a cookie as big as his head (didn't eat it all) and I had a light dinner. We both enjoyed the outing.

I have some ideas for outings this weekend. We are going to try to keep busy and have some fun. I'll let you know what we end up doing.

Next on the medical front is a bone marrow aspiration on Monday and then starting accutane that evening. The accutane will cause cells to mature that may otherwise become cancerous. He will have to take two capsules in the morning and 1 at night. I don't know yet if he will be able to swallow them or if I will have to extract the medication from the capsule. IT is better if he can swallow it.

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