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, August 16, 2004

Monday, August 16, 2004 9:10 PM CDT

Hello - the first day went pretty well considering it was day 1. It took a while to get going as usual and Nathan's IV took two attempts which is also not unusual. Nathan was very good about it and didn't get overly upset. His pain was intense but with two doses of pain medicine he relaxed and slept for a while. He didn't even complain about leaving the hospital and then slept for a while when we got back to the room. Afte he woke up he watched TV and I rubbed his feet for a few hours and then he and I played with cars and went to the playroom for a little bit. There was a cookout after that and then it was bedtime.

So - all in all - not too bad. I will try to update again tomorrow.

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