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.

Monday, February 2, 2004

Monday, February 2, 2004 8:00 PM CST

Sunday Nathan and I took it pretty easy after our busy Saturday. He did request a taco and he really likes Taco Bell. The nearest one required a bus ride to the west side so off we went. I think it took him 45 minutes to eat one taco. He thoroughly enjoyed it though. Later he wanted to go out again so we went window shopping.

Today was a long day. I got Nathan up at 6:00 to eat and then I got a call that they could get him in much earlier but he already had eaten. They still thought we could go in earlier and so we went at 10:30. He got the bone marrow biopsies at around 2:15. He was pretty good most of the time but by the end he was just crying about having to wait for so long and being so hungry. Afterwards he was very cranky from the anesthesia but we went to McDonalds and he spent an hour eating a cheeseburger and fries. We got back to the apartment and ate some pumpkin pie. We went to John and Judy's for dinner. He went straight to bed and I am trying to get ready to leave but am exhausted.

We are leaving at 6:00 for the airport and will be in Denver around 10:15. We can't wait.

Nathan was supposed to start accutane today but I got it this afternoon and he was going to take it before bed but when we got back from dinner he was WAY to tired and I didn't want his first attempt to go badly so we will go for it in the morning.

Next update should be from home!

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