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.

Wednesday, July 7, 2004

Wednesday, July 7, 2004 1:25 PM CDT
Hello!
We had a very nice 4th of July evening. We had a cook out and then went to see the fireworks. Nathan really enjoyed them. Julia did too, but not as much. She thought they were a little loud. At first she kept falling over (in fun) every time she heard one as if it knocked her down. Nathan just leaned against Luke and screeched and giggled.
It has been raining alot but we have gotten out here and there. Luke's parents live on many wooded acres of land with lots of flowers and grasses. The kids especially love picking the black raspberries right off the bushes and eating them.
Yesterday we went to the John Deere store and the kids got some toys and we walked around looking at the tractors. I will put some pictures up later.
No word from New York so that means no HAMA. I am also waiting to hear about Nathan's creatine clearance test he did last week. I talked to his oncologist today about something else and he is going to try to get the results for me.
On a personal note - I have now eaten some of my favorite "home" foods...Steak and Shake twice and Monicals Pizza once....I swear these foods are like drugs!



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