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.

Saturday, November 1, 2003

Saturday, November 1, 2003 7:41 PM CST

Susan here..

Thanks to everyone who sent emails to us in regards to Thursday's posts. Things have calmed down a little and we are HOME!

Friday we awoke to some freezing rain and snow and Julia and Luke made their way up to Denver. We all spent all day packing and cleaning. I had called my best friend Lisa Thursday night for some moral support and she in turned called our friend Tonya who offered to come up to Denver and help us clean. She was a lifesaver. We would have never gotten it all clean or all of our stuff home by ourselves. It was a LONG hard day. We got on the road around 3:00 pm in time to make it home before dark as the weather was still bad.

Our insurance now officially has the request for the trial and so we await a response from that. We have had Nathan's scans sent to New York for the surgeon there to look at and we are also meeting with our local surgeon on Tuesday.

We got home in time to go trick or treating to our neighbors' houses. It was freezing rain and very cold but we all had fun. Since we had given Tonya alot of our stuff to take back we were without many things we needed such as Julia's halloween costume. I drug up Nathan's costume from two years ago (superman) and she was very happy to wear it and it actually fits her personality to a T. Nathan was a doctor. He has the motion of slinging the stethascope around his neck down pat from all his observing of doctors. He had a good time doctoring Luke and I.

Today we have had a relaxing day at home.

It is bath time now so I must go. I will be adding some halloween pictures later this evening.

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