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, March 31, 2004

Wednesday, March 31, 2004 5:46 AM CST

Good morning...

Yesterday was a very different day. His pain during infusion was much more manageable for him. We actually got out of there by 1:30 pm. Unfortunately Nathan's pain continued until 6:30 pm. I spent much of that time sitting with him and massaging various parts of his body. I gave him more pain medicine around 5:30 because he wanted to go to bed. It seemed to perk him up instead of put him to sleep and he stayed up until 8:30 playing and eating. It was nice to see him have a little bit of fun even though I was exhausted by then and anxious to get him to bed so I could relax a little. Joan and I split a bottle of wine after he finally went to bed.

I have to keep this update short because I need to get ready to go. Thanks for reading!

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