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L O V E  &  P R A Y E R S  4  N A T H E N

"Nathen" October 2007
Our little man has already been through 4 chemo's.

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Heart Wishes for Nathen!
"This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life."  

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L o v e & P r a y e r s 4 N a t h e n

This weblog is our online journal of our little boy Nathen, that you can call "Nathen's Journey". You'll find personal information that is being logged as often as possible since finding out about our son's illness, neuroblastoma. There will be links to articles and items of interest on the web that you may find interesting on the subject.
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Monday, July 30, 2007

Update on Nathen July 30, 2007
Well we are still here in the hospital. Nathen still wont eat anything, which we think it is due to the sores in his mouth and throat from the chemo. On Saturday they started Nathen on TPN(IV nutrition) to increase his nutrition level. He also had a blood transfusion and plateletts transfusion on Saturday since his hemoglobin was low again. If all goes well with the nutrition IV and it gets adjusted right for his body we should be able to go home by Tuesday or Wedensday. He has been running fevers off and on the past couple of days but the doctors say it is probably due to the chemo being so rough on the body. All blood work done has not shown any infection to cause the fever so that is a good sign. The doctor also said that he may be having such a rough time because he was already weak and low on nutrition when we came into the hospital. Hopefully the nutrtion IV will give him enough strength to want to eat and play and get back to being his onry self. The doctor has also said that we may be going home with his IV in so he can have his nutritions and not have to come right back to the hospital due to levels being low again. Please keep him in your prayers and thank you to everyone who has been praying and passing the word around to everyone outside of our reach. Amanda, Chris, Nicole,Zach and Nathen..
6:45 am cdt

Friday, July 27, 2007

Update on Naters July 27
Well bad news and good news everyone.. we did have to stay another night here at the hospital due to Nathen Vomiting and not eating.. but good news... around 11pm Nathen took a vomiting spell and then had his anti nausea medicine, about 15 minutes later he was pointing at an almost empty bag of cool ranch doritos on the table by the foot of the bed. I picked it up and showed them to him and asked, You want these? He kept reaching for them so I handed him the bag to see what he would do.. well he dumped the whole bag on top of himself and proceeded to pick the crumbs off his chest and neck and eat them.. needless to say I was estatic about this and got him up in my arms nad had Daddy go get some saltine crackers( easier on the tummy) and he ate two of those. Along with the crackers and handfull of chips he drank about 5 ounces of sprite to rinse it down. After he was done eating he pointed back at the bed letting me know he wanted to go back over there and sit, so I put him back in bed and got him some toys to play with. This is the most lively we have seen him in almost two weeks and the only thing he has eaten since last Tuesday night. It is now about 1230am and he has still kept it down so if progress keeps up we may be going home tomorrow! Keep your fingers crossed. Amanda
3:54 am cdt


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