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.

Sunday, January 4, 2004

Sunday, January 4, 2004 3:04 PM CST

Susan here...

We have been having a good weekend. Yesterday we awoke to snow and it snowed all day. Nathan wanted us to go out and shovel the driveway so after breakfast we got all bundled up (it was a wind chill of 3) and went outside and he helped shovel with his little snow shovel. Julia joined in with a broom. We didn't stay out too long due to the cold and after lunch they went out again.

Yesterday afternoon we went to the mall. Nathan has been begging us to go to the mall. I guess he just likes to look at everything there. We went and had dinner afterwards and it was fun to be out and about like a normal family (although most families were not venturing out in the bad weather).

Today we went to the toy store to pick up some toys with some money the kids received for Christmas presents. Nathan was thrilled to have money to spend. Julia was running around saying "my twenty dollars!". Nathan got (what else) a construction related toy and Julia picked out an electronic Dora the Explorer toy. Their Christmas presents are still en route to Colorado from New York. It will be like a second Christmas for them when they arrive since they only had one day to play with them.

Tomorrow Nathan starts radiation. I will try to let you know how it goes.

I will be putting some snow shovelling pictures on the photo album page.

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