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, May 9, 2005

Monday, May 9, 2005 9:46 AM CDT

Hello - I hope all you moms out there had a happy Mother's Day.

Remember that slight cold Nathan had? Well - he is over it, but I got it and it was bad for me and I spent the last week sick. So we didn't do much. I managed to do the bare minumum of running the kids around. Unfortunately I have a cough and that doesn't mix well with morning sickness. So - I am afraid I don't have much to write about for last week.

I did have a good Mother's Day. I felt well enough to go to church and sing. After church we went out to lunch. We just relaxed the rest of the day and had dinner and an ice cream cake for dessert. It occurred to me that I have now had more Mother's Day since Nathan's diagnosis than before. Wow! I am so thankful for every day with my children and especially thankful that Nathan is still here with us - seemingly healthy and happy.

Nathan did get his immunizations last week. He did really well - I am so proud of the way he deals with such things. He is now at the point where we will draw blood to check if his immunizations have taken. After that I think he starts getting some different ones. He has been getting 4 at a time.

I go to the doctor tomorrow for my 12 week OB visit. I can't belive the first trimester is almost over. I am now in the unfortunate stage where none of my clothes fit and maternity clothes are too big - so if you see me - please ignore how horribly I am dressed!

The kids, especially Julia, have been telling us here and there what kinds of things we will need to have for a new baby It is very sweet. What we do need to do soon - is get our basement turned into two rooms instead of one big room so that Luke can have is office down there and we can also have a playroom too.

Nathan only has 7 days of preschool left! I goes his usual 4 days this week and then next Wednesday is his last day. I feel sad for him that it is ending - he realy loves it. I really like his teachers and his classmates moms - but the nice thing for me is that Julia will be in the morning class next year with the same teacher and 2 siblings of his classmates.

After preschool ends we are off to Phoenix to celebrate a friend's (Jim Barton) law school graduation and to hang out with several friends for a long weekend. We are renting a big house with a pool and it should be a really fun time.

Thanks for checking in!

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