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, August 7, 2005

Sunday, August 7, 2005 7:26 AM CDT

Good morning.

Yesterday was a good day. They kept Nathan on sips of clear liquids only. His stomach did get somewhat distended from that - but not too bad. It looks hopeful that he will be back on clear solids today. Other than the eating he is doing great. He is moving all around and sitting up. We will probably get him walking today. He stayed awake all day yesterday and was in a good mood.

He had a good night. Luke got him pain medication once in the night. He seems to only need it twice a day. He was up every 2 hours to pee - they may slow down his fluids tonight.

Sorry I didn't get the hospital info posted. I figured that it would take too long to mail anything before he was out of here.

Some of you have asked about Julia. She is doing just fine. Luke's parents were taking care of her until yesterday and now my parents are at the house with her.

So - nothing much going on (which is good!). We are just anticipating our talk with the oncology team this week.

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