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, November 29, 2004

Monday, November 29, 2004 7:24 AM CST

Hello everyone - I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We certainly did. The kids have been loving having Grandma C and Grandpa Bill here.

We didn't do much but stay home the whole time. It was very relaxing. Some of us adults got to go see the Polar Express. Now we just need to take the kids! We went because we have an IMAX theater here that was showing it in 3D and the kids couldn't have done that. It was amazing! My mom and I did some shopping and there was much watching of football and basketball. All in all a very normal good Thanksgiving.

I have caught the kids cold and have gotten it bad. I am hoping to be on the mend today. Luke left this morning to go on a business trip and my parents are leaving this afternoon. I have to do choir things 4 times this week and so I hope my voice recovers.

We are having some very wintery weather. Nathan was begging to go outside to play in the snow yesterday but since the wind chill was at zero I had to tell him no. Currently the temperature outside is 8 degrees! He will get to go to preschool today. The schools are 2 hours delayed but that will not affect him.

Nathan goes to see his oncologist on Thursday. It is just a routine visit with a blood draw. I also need to talk to his doctor about his scans. He is due at the end of December but we will wait until the beginning of January. I am going to try to get prior scans from New York so there is better comparisons this time.

That is about all that is going on here. We got the Christmas lights put up on the house before Luke left and the kids are very happy about that. It is going to be so much fun to decorate the tree with them this year.

I will update again Thursday evening or Friday morning.

I hope you all have a good week.

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