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, October 22, 2004

Friday, October 22, 2004 2:11 PM CDT

Hi - There is no real news today...so I will talk about what we have been up to.

Wednesday afternoon I took the kids to a pottery painting place where a local group called Compassion for Kids was having kids paint pottery to make Christmas presents for their parents. It was a little bit hectic with me trying to help both of them at once since they are so young. They really enjoyed themselves however. We also had cake for a boy who just finished treatment.

Thursday, the kids went to daycare and she had a little Halloween party for them. Speaking of Halloween - I will put a picture of them in their costumes on the photo page. I went and voted since I will be in New York on election day.

Nathan started his shots on Wednesday. He is doing great with them. He tells me I am doing a good job with them because they are not hurting him. He is being pre-medicated and that has definitely kept him from having a huge welt, though the area is still a little inflamed and red.

I am starting to get ready for our trip. We have made plans to visit Garrett's family (one of Nathan's friends having the same treatments) north of the city on the weekend. We haven't worked out the details yet, but the plan is to stay over until Monday morning so that Nathan can trick or treat with Garrett and his siblings. I am so happy for him that he will get to trick or treat and it will be wonderful for me to spend time with this wonderful family for the weekend.

I will be putting the Ronald McDonald House address on the page if any of you want to send a card to Nathan while we are there. I will add room number information after we arrive, but if you send it without it will get to us anyway.

I will update again after we get to New York.

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