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.

Friday, August 13, 2004

Friday, August 13, 2004 3:50 PM CDT


Hello -


This morning I premedicated Nathan and gave him the shot when we got to the clinic. After about an hour it swelled slightly and itched a little. It then receded a little and remains only a little swollen. So - the plan is to keep premedicating and hopefully that will do the trick. I will have to check it again thisevening when the medicine is worn off to see if it swelled back up.


The other good news is that we do have a room at the Ronald McDonald House. I will put the address on the page. I will add a room number after we get there.


I have not yet packed a thing and still have some errands so I will make this brief. I will write again after we get to New York.






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