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.

Thursday, October 28, 2004

Thursday, October 28, 2004 6:25 PM CDT

Hello - well I thought today was pretty bad, but Nathan told me a few minutes ago that he had a really good day.

His pain was REALLY BAD. He screamed out in pain for over a half hour and then grunted in pain for another hour. It hasn't been that bad for several rounds. He was really wiped out after that and I was a mess and the combination was not good and I took out my frustrations on him by not being very patient when he was very cranky and screaming on the way home. A while after we got back to the room he told me "Mommy, I wasn't being bad and throwing a fit before, I was just in pain". Boy did that make me feel bad bad bad. It is not as if I don't know that, I am just in such a bad state myself that I cannot react in a calm reasonable way to the screaming. Anyway, we hung around the room and house the res of the afternoon. I was trying to stake out the washer and dryer. Nathan played most of the afternoon and evening. He really enjoyed his playing and was pretending he was a Daddy and he had a baby he was taking care of. He told me the baby threw a fit and the Mommy got make and made a face like " " and he showed me the face and said she had one eye shut and the other open a little and his teeth were kind of bared. He is too funny. Oh, and I am pretty sure I don't make that face - I will have to ask Luke.

So - I have NO CLUE what to expect from tomorrow's treatment. It is as if we are starting over again so I guess I will expect it to be bad. I am hoping we get an early start at least so we can leave the hospital and get on a train around 1:00. We will be going to Garrett's house for the weekend and we are definitely ready for a nice break from all this for the weekend.

I may not update until Monday, I am not sure. Hope you all have a good weekend and Halloween.

(some pics from Central Park Zoo)







(Some pics of the UGLY rooms at the Ronald)


(plus my sweet boy)


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