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, February 20, 2004

Friday, February 20, 2004 6:00 PM CST

Hello from NYC!

We arrived in around 6:00 tonight and are settling in.

The last few days have been busy. Thursday we ran around doing errands and then stopped in at playgroup. Last night I put Julia in the car and we were going to go to Wal-mart. Unfortunately we were involved in an car accident. I was turning left onto a major road at the top of a hill and the light turned yellow as I made my turn. Right after I turned onto the road I saw something out of passenger window and it was a car racing by - they swerved and grazed my car (I barely felt it) but the driver lost control and hit a light pole and spun into the opposing lanes. Fortunately no one else was involved and the driver was shaken up but OK. I didn't talk to her because I was staying at my car with Julia. A few minutes later we almost got creamed by a car coming up the hill who didn't see people flagging them away. It managed to stop a foot or so from my bumper. Julia was in the car at that point and it scared me to death.

Best I can figure is that the other car anticipated the light turning green as she approached and didn't even slow down. There were several witnesses who saw that her light was red. Unfortunately they didn't actually write down that I had the right of way even though they said she had a red light. That technicality caused the officer not to issue any tickets but the insurance company will hopefully talk to the witnesses. Anyway - our car has a small dent and a broken turn light and that is all. We were lucky we weren't hurt!

After that it was very difficult to go home and pack but with Luke's help we got it done. We woke up to snowy weather this morning and went to the airport. The streets were a little slick but we got to the airport in plenty of time. The flight went fine and Nathan was good. As usual he had lots of bowel pain. His abdomen was as hard as a rock from the gas in there. A major accomplishment is that we went to the bathroom and he went on the toilet. This is a first for him and hopefull he will be potty trained soon.

So we have the weekend in New York. I am not sure what we are doing yet. I am sure a subway or bus ride will be in store.

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