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, August 25, 2004

Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:05 AM CDT

Good morning,

Sorry I didn't update last night. Yesterday was a better day. The morning was a bit rough and I had to force Nathan's medicines into him. He was also ignoring the doctors and nurses who were talking to him. We rested some after teatment and then went to Herold's square where we did some shopping. We were in Penn station a little and I could not believe the police presence there. There was a gropu of 2-3 police officers every 10 feet as I walked around. Afterwards we went out to eat and then to bed. He pain was about the same yesterday.

He had just finished his infusion this morning and is sleeping it off. He actually had considerably more pain today. More than any other day besides the first Monday. I have no clue why. I don't think a HAMA is developing. At this point I am (and have been) planning on being back here until Dec 2005 and if he gets to stop before then, then I will be very happy.

Last night Nathan and I had one of the better night's sleep in a long time. I definately feel better today. The night before there was someone talking loudly and playing guitar in the hallway at 12:30 am. Can you believe that? I had to go out there and ask them to stop.

This week is crawling along for us because we want to come home so badly. Only 2 treatments left.

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