Nathan's Journey: Thursday, February 5, 2004

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.

Thursday, February 5, 2004 7:27 PM CST

Susan here...

Yesterday Nathan and I were wiped out but quite busy. I took Julia to the DR in the morning. She is doing great. She is tall just like her big brother (95th percentile).

Nathan and I baked her cake and I went out while they were napping and got her some balloons. We had friends over for dinner and cake - just one family as we were trying to keep it low-key for Nathan. The kids all had fun playing and eating.

Today the kids and I went to playgroup at church. It had been months since we have been able to go and it was really nice to see friends and do something normal.

We got an email from Nathan's doctor in New York saying his bone marrow biopsy was still cancer free. That is always good news!

Nathan continues to take his pills without trouble and complaint. He is awesome! He insists on taking them with Coke - so that's what he gets!

He goes in to see his local doctor on Monday. He may also have a hearing test while we are at home.

No plans for tomorrow as of yet. That suits me just fine!

See the photo page for some new pictures.