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, July 19, 2004

Monday, July 19, 2004 11:29 AM CDT

Hello everyone,

We had a good weekend. On Saturday we got a lot of yard work done while the kids played outside and then had dinner with friends who are moving. The barbeque on Sunday was lots of fun (for the kids anyway). They had a large inflated slide and bouncy house, a fire engine, teepees, horses to ride and a petting zoo. The children had much fun with all. Julia especially loved the slide and they both adored the horseback ride. There are some picture on the photo album page.

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(read on for more text after pics)

Medically all is stable around here. Nathan and Julia have been having so much fun playing with each other later. I was going to run some errands this morning, but the two of them were playing so nicely I just stayed home. It is so wonderful to watch them play together.

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I want to thank everyone who continues to sign the guestbook. Sometimes it feels like a one-way conversation around here so we appreciate the occasional note from those who are reading.

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