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.

Saturday, May 8, 2004

Saturday, May 8, 2004 1:16 PM CDT

Hi! It has been a few days since I updated so I will try to catch you up. Thursday we awoke to another beautiful day and so the kids and I decided to go to the zoo. They both had a blast and esepcially loved the petting zoo and petting the bunnies. The other cool thing at the zoo here is that you can feed the giraffes. They both did that and got a kick out of it.

Friday we stayed home most of the morning and then headed out to buy new sand for their sand and water table. I also got their pictures taken. See the photo album for some of those.

In the afternoon we all spent more time outside in the gorgeous weather.

Today we decided to have a family picnic and we went to our favorite county park and played and had lunch. Nathan ran and ran. He tired Luke out running and being chased and still wanted to continue. Julia of course did so as well. What a beautiful sight it is to see him running and smiling!

We are not sure what the rest of the weekend has in store. Luke has to work a little and tomorrow night we will have dinner with some friends. Last night I got to go play cards with some friends and had a fun time. Unfortunately I am way behind on sleep and am exhausted. I will catch up someday.

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