Nathan's Journey: Monday, June 28, 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 28, 2004 8:48 AM CDT

Good Morning...

We had a very nice time at the picnic. ~~You can see a slideshow of pictures~~

~~here~~ As you will see it rained part way through but we did have some sun at the beginning and middle and the kids got to run around and play at the playground. There are train tracks right by the park and the kids loved watching the trains got by.

Yesterday the kids and I stayed at home and did some cleaning and yardwork. Luke is extremely busy with work and had to work all day. Today the kids and I have a free day and so we will run some errands this morning and then this afternoon my brother Jason is coming by to visit.

As far as medical stuff goes, we will be collecting Nathan's urine on Wednesday for a kidney function test. On Thursday he will go to the clinic for a related blood test and also to draw his HAMA sample to send to New York.

Friday we head off to Illinois for a week to see Luke's family. It will be the first long road trip with the two kids so it should be interesting!