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 7, 2004

Sunday, November 7, 2004 7:01 PM CST

So - one of the first things Nathan said to me when he found out he didn't have to have anymore treatment was that if he was done with treatment than he should have a cake a celebrate. We had recently attended an event where there was a cake for a boy done with treatment. So I told him that of course we would and last night we had that cake! So - that is what the new picture on his page is from.


We are settling in. Julia has been extrememly emotional and having a hard time, but she is definately happy to have everyone home. She and Nathan have been doing lots of playing and a little more fighting than usual but are having lots of fun together.

Nathan is telling everyone he sees that he is off-treatment. I am sure he will tell everyone at preschool tomorrow.

Nathan will go to the pediatrician on Wednesday to get started on his revaccinations. It will be nice to get an opinion on some of his lesser issues from a non-oncologist.

I plan to update our family website for October very soon - so keep an eye out for the new pictures...we have a lot.

Thanks for all the guestbook entries and emails. We are glad to be able to share some good news with all of you!

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