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.

Saturday, December 18, 2004

Saturday, December 18, 2004 1:53 PM CST

Hello - I hope everyone is having a good weekend.

We had a good week last week. Both kids were dealing with their colds at the beginning of the week so other than preschool - we didn't do very much.

Thursday, Nathan's preschool had a holiday party. Julia and and attended and had a very nice time. Julia was so excited to go - she held my hand and skipped on our way to his building. She didn't want to leave when it was time to go. Hopefully she will attend preschool there 2 mornings a week next fall.

Yesterday we spent a few hours at McDonalds for a playgroup and they enjoyed climbing all over the place while I enjoyed talking with friends.

Nathan is very cranky today. He has been SO cranky lately and I really hope it is him getting over his cold. The cancer mom inside me is concerned that he is feeling bad and that is why he is cranky. We have sent him to go nap and are hoping that will help things.

I had choir practice this morning to gear up for services tomorrow and Christmas Eve. We all have to sing all 3 services tomorrow morning and there are 5 services Christmas Eve but I will only sing three because I am really looking forward to tucking my kids into bed this year on Christmas Eve. It will mean so much to me after being away last year.

We got an unexpected treat last night. Nathan and Julia's day care provider called to say she was opening the day care from 5 - 8 last night and so the kids were all there in their PJs and ate pizza and watched some Christmas movies while Luke and I had a nice dinner out and did some window shopping downtown (Thanks Tammy!).


Nathan still has preschool next Monday and Tuesday and then they will go to day care on Wednesday and Luke's parents and sister will arrive on Thursday. I can't believe Christmas is only a week away. I can't wait!

Safe travels for those of you going away this week.

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