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, February 14, 2005

Monday, February 14, 2005 7:38 AM CST

Happy Valentines Day!

We are all slowly recovering from the sickies. Luke is still the sickest though he is up and around. In fact, he is off on a business trip today after having worked all day yesterday on the presentation he has to give.

Nathan will go the the doctor today to get his ear rechecked to make sure the infection is gone. Before that, I think they have a swimming lesson to make up for a snow day. We will go over and find out for sure and sign up for the next round.

Nathan has a Valentine's day party at preschool and Julia and I join him for it later this afternoon. My friend Tonya and I traded favors....I took the bunches of lefterover valentine cookies she had from her son's preschool party and I will bring them to Nathan's - she says I did her a favor by taking them out of her house! Nathan and Julia have both picked out valentines to give. I am not sure who Julia will give them to, but I knew I had better get her some since I had to get Nathan some.

Everything looks fine for our friend, Joshua - they are doing an additional test to make sure - but his family is feeling much more reassured now.

My choir busy season is starting up again. We have a concert on Palm Sunday. We are starting extra rehearsals on Monday's starting today. This time, there is child care for it so that will be much easier. We will be singing John Rutter's "Mass of the Children". It is really beautiful and I am enjoying learning it. We will also be getting ready for Easter services and two other extra preformances in te Lenten season.

I am sitting between Nathan and Julia as I write this. They get up in the morning and sit on the couch and wathc a little TV. When I come down they are often sitting right next to each other - sharing a blanket. It is so sweet. As I was writing this - Nathan snuggled up to me and said' "Mommy - I love you very much". He is just so sweet and loving. Julia is too - but just not quite as much! I am so lucky to have them.

Nathan with "Brandy Bear" from preschool that he took care of all weekend.

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