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.

Thursday, June 10, 2004

Thursday, June 10, 2004 7:28 AM CDT

Good morning

Yesterday wen pretty well. We didn't go do anything in the morning because Nathan just wanted to play. It was very hot and humid so it was just as well.

Nathan did really well with his finger stick. He HATES them (I don't blame him) but he had to do it daily now without his broviak. He didn't even flinch today and had me help him pick which finger to use.

His treatment went fairly well. He tried to play through the pain and did so for a while but then had to lie down. He actually fell asleep afterwards which was not usual for him. He usually lies there and everyone thinks he is asleep but he is working his fingers and coping with pain.

We got home around 2:30 and he was doing pretty well for awhile. He wanted to go somewhere and we went to BArnes and Noble and got some books. We got back VERY hot and I think he started feeling bad. We went out to dinner a while later and he really was in pain. I convinced him to take some tylenol and on the way home he perked right up and felt better and played until I made him take a bath.

This morning he is happy and we will go off to the hospital around 10:00.

2 more days this week....hopefully his IV will last through Friday.

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