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, March 25, 2004

Thursday, March 25, 2004 7:41 PM CST

Susan here..

Not much going on really. Nathan went to the oncologist on Wednesday. They ran a few extra blood tests for some things which were all normal.

Nathan got a little bit of the illness we have all gotten but is doing OK. It is hard to tell what is going on with his bowels though. Speaking of that sort of thing - he is officially potty trained and wearing underwear without an accident. I didn't know if it ever would happen and it turns out he just became ready and did it.

He and I will leave for New York on Saturday. The weather looks to be crummy the whole time we are there. Meanwhile we have had sunny 70 degree days here in Colorado. Today we went to the park to enjoy the weather. Nathan was able to climb up several types of ladders - it was so good to see him able to do that. He is starting to move a little faster and not complain as much when he is walking places.

His weight is still the same. His doctor advised we up his appetite stimulant so we did and we will see if it helps any. HE really needs to gain a few pounds.

I updated our family web page. It is kind of rudimentary but fast and easy to do so that was the most important thing.

I'll probably update again after we get to New York.

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