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, January 14, 2004

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:12 AM CST

Susan here...

Well - the corporate flight was cancelled and so they are still looking. Seems like we will probably be flying commercially. At least that will give us a few extra days at home.

Nathan finished radiaion yesterday. He was such a good boy and did a great job. The techs gave him a tow truck, a bi truck balloon and a stuffed animal puppy. They gave Julia a Teddy Bear. Nathan also got to ring the "finished with raiation" gong.

Today we will go to the clinic so he can get some blood drawn since he has been on the IV nutrition and they have to check it.

This morning his GM-CSF shot supplies should arrive (they'd better!) and he starts his shots.

Yesterday after radiation in the morning we went to Krispy Kreme and had some doughnuts. The kids both chose doughnuts with chocolate frosting and blue sprinkles. Julia tore right in and made a big mess - Nathan nibbled his very daintily and kept clean. They are SO different.

I had to wake them both up from naps to go in the afternoon. They were both crying and very cranky.

Well- keeping my fingers crossed for a corporate flight but it doesn't look good. I'll let you all know what happens.

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