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, September 8, 2004

Wednesday, September 8, 2004 8:03 AM CDT

Good morning,

We had a nice holiday weekend. We got some yardwork and housework done. On Sunday we went for a hike and on Monday our cul-de-sac had a cookout which was a lot of fun. We are into the early September weather in Colorado which is just gorgeous. 50's and 60's in the morning and 70's in the afternoon and almost zero humidity of course. On the other hand, in 2001 we had our first snow on September 8 (which is today).

Yesterday, being Tuesday, the kids were in daycare. I still have to go pick Nathan up and deliver him to preschool so not quite as much as a day off as it used to be.

Nathan is doing well. Nothing going on with his health at the moment. Tomrorow he will go get his blood drawn at the clinic and have an exam. We are still waiting for the results of the immunity test that were done in New York. It is likely that he will begin reimmunizations once we get the information. Won't that be fun!!!

Nathan's 3 month scans will be done on our next trip to New York. I am not looking forward to the worry of that! I would rather he didn't even have regular scans as I am not sure early detection of relapse actually helps much. I am also trying to figure out about possibly getting his bone marrow taken here instead of NEw York because in New York they will not do them on a treatment day and so that means we have to spend an extra Friday and weekend in New York. On the other hand, they do bone marrows under conscious sedation here and I am not wild about that either. So....who know what we will do - I will keep you posted.

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