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, November 19, 2005




UPDATE SUNDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2005

I realize I left you hanging about Nathan - sorry!

He has beeen having some bowel troubles. We think he has C Diff from the antibiotics he was on and from being immuno-suppressed. It causes him abdominal pain, diarrhea and gas. He has only had a few episodes of pain, luckily. We put him on a medication that he has to take every 6 hours for 10 days. At least we are already awake in the middle of the night to get up and give it to him. You may recall he had 6 months of bowel troubles in the past that were really debilitating. He never tested positive for C Diff but it wasn't until we put him on the medication that he got better. So - that is why we are treating him even though we don't know for sure.

Nathan will have counts checked tomorrow - I will update more then.






















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