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, February 18, 200

Friday, February 18, 2005 8:09 AM CST

Hello,

Well - this week has flown by.

Monday was Valentine's Day and Julia and I went to Nathan's party at preschool. It mostly consisted of eating, but we all had a good time. The kids were having "circle time" when we arrived and Julia sat right down in the cirlce and joined in. She can't wait until she gets to go. She is signed up for 2 days a week next year and will likely have the same teacher as Nathan.

I had a choir rehearsal late Monday afternoon/evening and they had childcare so Nate and Jules came with me and ate their dinner and played with their friends Pete and Katie.

Oh yeah - also on Monday Nathan had his ear rechecked and all was fine. They also had a swimming lesson and they both passed to the next level. In fact, in this last lesson they both made great strides. Nathan starting voluntarily dunking his head under water and both he and Julia floated on their backs unassisted. They start the next level on Monday.

The rest of the week was not so busy. In fact, yesterday we didn't have anything going on and I tried to get the out of the house, but they wanted to laze around in their pajamas. They play so much together now that sometimes they prefer to stay home. Not that I am complaining. They are the perfect age to play pretend all day long. Yesterday afternoon they stayed outside for over an hour playing some invovled game.

Today we are going to a friend's house and then going to the library for a preschool-sponsored event. I am actually not sure what we will be doing, but it sounded like a good activity to attend.

Luke and I got a babysitter for Saturday night and will be going out. This is actually the first time we have done this. This is not to say we haven't been out to dinner alone in 5 years, but it has always been when we had family visiting to watch the kids. Luke finally went to the doctor and is on multiple medications and is hoping to feel better soon. Of course, he went on a business trip and has been working ever since.

Lately, Nathan has been delighting in doing physical things. Last night he was doing flips off the side of a chair. I can't help myself but to delight in it rather than tell him to stop. I just love watching him be physical. The other day, when leaving preschool he and Julia ran ahead and he actually told me to hurry up. This has never happened before. It is always me telling him to hurry up. He has never walked ahead of me before. It was wonderful. That is definately one gift that Nathan's cancer has given..the ability to relish in the small things that happen every day.

Have a great weekend!

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