Nathan's Journey: Monday, June 14, 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.

Monday, June 14, 2004 3:31 PM CDT

Hello - hope you all had a good weekend. We definately did.

Saturday we went for a long walk in central park and then home for naps. Saturday late afternoon Luke and I ran out for a little and then had dinner and put the kids to bed. Sunday we went out for breakfast and then took the subway to Times Square and went to the toy store. Both kids seemed very tired so we came back and napped them and then we went up for dinner at Judy and John's and had a wonderful time. Luke, Kathy and I stayed up too late playing scrabble and then went to bed.

This morning all of us minus Luke (who was working) went to the hospital. Nathan got his IV placed and they had to make two attempts and it was pretty traumatic. While he had his antibodies, Mike stayed with us and Julia and Kathy hung out in the playroom where Julia had a ball. Nathan's pain was the usual amount and he came home and slept for a few hours. He got up a little bit ago and was in pain so I gave him some narcotics and now he is feeling much better.

Luke had his celebrity sighting on Sunday when he was in line for the pharmacist and Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft were in front of him. They apparently live nearby.

So - 6 down - 4 to go. 2 more days until Nathan's birthday (well 1 and a half now....)!

Details on the picnic on June 26 will be coming in the next day or two.