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, August 19, 2005

Friday, August 19, 2005 8:01 AM CDT

Nathan continues to handle the chemo well. He has had no more nausea, vomitting or diarrhea. He seems a little bit more tired and emotional - but that could also be from his first week of school. He has continued to have lots to tell us about his day at school and is still enjoying it.

Today is the last day of chemo and then we will take the line out of his port for the weekend. Monday he will get his counts checked at the clinic. I imagine he will also go back either Thursday or Friday too.

Julia went to her preschool orientation yesterday. She was pretty quiet and shy, but I don't think it will take too long for her to get into it. She already knows her teachers so that should help. She starts on Tuesday.

I would like to ask for some prayers for a little boy and his family who was in the same room at the ICU as Nathan in NY. He had the same surgery as Nathan - to remove his tumor and unfortunately had complications afterwards and is in very serious condition. His name is David. Sometimes we forget that all the treatments to save these kids lives are themselves so dangerous. It is very sobering.

Well - off to get Nathan ready for school...

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