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.

Sunday, February 6, 2005

Sunday, February 6, 2005 11:33 AM CST

Hello everyone -

We are in the middle of a nice relaxing weekend. In fact, today is perfect football weather since it is cold and snowy. We lit a fire and are settling in. I should also mention it is perfect basketball weather too - since the Illini are on this afternoon as well.

We had a pretty good week this past week. Tuesday, the kids didn't go to daycare as usual because she and her family were sick. Wednesday there were swimming lessons and I am pleased to announce that Nathan got up the nerve to jump to his teacher without holding his hands. He was very proud of himself.

Thursday we went to Chuck E Cheese and they always have a lot of fun there. At the end of the morning, Nathan complained about his ear hurting and then on teh way to preschhol he was in tears about it and so we went home and he took a nap. Luke took him to the doctor in the late afternoon and she said he does have an ear infection. He is on antibiotics and has not complained of any pain since Thursday afternoon and so it has been a non-issue.

The kids went to daycare on Friday and I got to file the taxes and do some errands.

We were in contact with the Make a Wish people and it looks like we will be going to Disney World in April. We haven't told the kids yet, but I am sure they will be so excited. Nathan just loves amusement parks and I think this is a great wish for him.

I got to go out last night with 11 other women for a "girl's night out". We went to a restaurant and had a great time.

This week has nothing of note going on. Well - actually I forgot - Julia has her 3 year old checkup. Nathan will go to daycare and Julia and I will spend the morning together. I am looking forward to that. I so rarely spend any time alone with her and I have spent so much time alone with Nathan. She has gotten so grown-up lately. I can't belive my baby is 3 now!

So - we have all been living very normal happy lives lately and I am so thankful for that!

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