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, June 24, 2005

Friday, June 24, 2005 1:54 PM CDT

Well - we got bad news today. Nathan has relapsed with a 2x2x3 cm tumor at the site of his original tumor (on his right kidney). The good news is that his bone marrow is clean and his MIBG scan shows no other cancer.

We are not sure what the next step is. His local oncologist thought that surgery would be the first step. We have a call into his doctor in New York to see what he thinks we should do. We hope to travel to New York very soon and get moving on treatment.

We have not told Nathan yet and we will not tell him until we have a plan of action.

Keep those prayers coming.

(added 1/10/11..the pictures that follow were taken by Tammy, who so graciously offered to take Nathan and Julia for the afternoon after we got the bad news to let us digest it and the kids have some fun)








No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)