Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Wide Awake!!

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Wide Awake!!

Wyatt is the bully of the NICU... he weighs a whopping 9lbs 5oz! Chloe, his big sis was weighed today and she weighs 19lbs... Wyatt is almost half her size in weight!! He is a strong little boy and today he was awake from 9:45am until 2:00pm! I held him most of the day and we starred into each others eyes all day long. It was so nice! Wyatt's feeds increased to 9cc's every hour and his hydromorphone (narcotic) is down to 3. He still has fluid in his chest, but he has been coughing more which is a great sign. Wyatt's staples were removed from his chest and the incision is healing very nicely. The wound in his neck is healing as well. It still looks gross... but the nurses are changing the dressing daily and it looks better.

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Hurdles that I faced and achieved!

After birth, I was placed on ECMO at Johns Hopkins Hospital for 13 days. On day 13, I had a surgery to repair my hernia and was removed from ECMO, but my organs would not fit in my abdomen. I had a silo for a week and then surgery to place the organs back in the abdomen. Then, part of my intestines re-herniated into my chest cavity two months later and I had another surgery to repair that. After my first surgery, I experienced an intraventricular hemorrhage in my brain and at four months old I received a VP shunt. After I was extubated, I learned that I have right vocal cord paralysis. Then I had g-tube surgery and after I finally got to go home after 5 longs months at Johns Hopkins and Mt. Washington Hospital! Only for a few weeks, though. In mid-April my intestines reherniated again and sent me into surgery. I came home, and had a long run before my THIRD reherniation in the beginning of September on Labor Day weekend in 2008. Then I was hospitalized for twice during the winter 2009 for two respiratory infections. Well, I almost lasted a year until my next surgery! Just this past June, in 2009, I had surgery to wrap my stomach around the esophagus, a nissen. This has helped with my reflux and my hiatal hernia. I will be 2 in October, I love scooting around but refuse to stand up and walk. I am a little miracle and thank God, my doctors, my nurses, family, and friends for my strength, my fight and a happy life.