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, November 10, 2004

Wednesday, November 10, 2004 12:07 AM CST

Hello from cold and blustery Colorado. I wish we could stay in today but we have been out and about taking Nathan to the pediatrician. I tried to get her all caught up on his current state of health. He had to have 4 shots today for immunizations and will have to go back in a week for a flu shot. He handled it pretty well.

He has enjoyed being back in preschool and I am so happy to know he won't have any more extended absences.

Everyone seems to be calming down and getting into the swing of things now. Of course Luke will be traveling for work next week and so that will be another disruption - but at least a "normal" one!

We came home form a very, very large bill from the hospital in New York. Our old insurance had not paid anything for the antibodies the whole time. Fortunately, when I called the very rude person in at the hospital I found out all balances were paid the last week in October. That is a big relief. Our new insurance is not yet billing correctly, but we have been in contact with someone and we are being told it is getting fixed.

That is about all that is going on around here. Thanks for checking in.




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