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.

Tuesday, April 6, 2004

Tuesday, April 6, 2004 7:05 PM CDT

Hello - 7 down 3 more to go...

Today was not as good as yesterday but I was expecting that - these treatments are never the same. Nathan's pain medicine crankiness was in full-swing today. At one point he struck me in the eye. We got home by 2:00 pm and Nathan rested on the couch and was cranky and in a little pain. After much cajoling and bargaining we got him to agree to go to the Natural History Museum to go to a special butterfly exhibit there. They had a special group for kids from the hospital. As I said, NAthan didn't want to go and I had to promise him he didn't have to look at the butterflies. After we were in the for a few minutes he told me he DID like to look at butterflies and had a great time as they flew around us. After the museum we went out to dinner and had a nice time. I had to rub his feet a little bit at dinner but it was still pretty minor pain.

I can't even explain how much I am looking forward to being done on Friday and getting 8 weeks off. I am sure it will go by too fast - but after a year of treatments with at the most about 2 and a half weeks off I am so excited that we are finally at a point where we will have months off at a time!!!!

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