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, November 14, 2005

Monday, November 14, 2005 6:38 PM CST

Nathan had a clinic visit today. His counts were somewhat better than I expected. He had been pretty emotional, tired and his nose was seeping a little blood-tinged mucous. His counts were all down but his white counts are still in a good range with an ANC of 1800. His platelets are low but not in transfusion range. I was a little concerned about that so it was a relief that he does not need one. His weight has gone back up a pound. We were all pleased about that!

Like I said, he has been pretty tired and emotional. It is something we do see with declining counts. He did go to school today and had a really good day - so I think when he came home he kind of let down. He had a major crying fit about not wanting anything to eat that we had available to him.

The next clinic visit is set for Monday - but we are to keep an eye on him and bring him in for counts later this week if it seems like they may be getting too low. By now we know some of the signs.

So - that is it for now. I am hoping to have this baby in the next week - so send some labor vibes my way!

Susan

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