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, April 8, 2005

Friday, April 8, 2005 9:02 AM CDT

Julia completed her IVIG infusion yesterday. It should have been complete about 2:00 am the night they were in the hospital , but someone messed up and didn't notice that the pump switched to IV fluids. They didn't catch it until the next morning so she had to stay longer yesterday while they gave her the rest of her infusion. She felt good most of the day and then her neck started hurting late in the afternoon.

She is on high doses of aspirin every 6 hours. It has been a struggle to make her take it. Even worse, her nose is bleeding. It bled some in the night and stopped. It has been bleeding for 1 and a half hours this morning with no signs of stopping. I am waiting to call the doctor when the office opens.

At least we are home....

I'll update again later.

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1:50 pm MDT

Julia's doctor managed to get her nosebleed to stop and so far it hasn't come back. I am sure it will at some point, but I feel more comfortable with being able to stop the next one. She is currently feeling well and she and Nathan and playing very nicely together. It is clear they missed playing together. They are wonderful playmates.

As for Luke and I - boy we are in extremely rough shape. I don't think I could adequately describe it, but we are definitely on the brink of emotional and physical collapse. We really need at least a week of no drama around here to even begin to recover.

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