Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Wyatt eats for the first time!

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Wyatt eats for the first time!

Yum Yum!! says Wyatt after eating 13 cc's of breast milk every four hours through his NG tube (feeding tube that goes through his nose). At first he did not like it and spit the milk up. I don't think I would like food going down my nose either!!Then the nurses decided to vent his feeding tube and now he seems to keep most of it down. His stomach is probably smaller than normal since it grew in his chest cavity. The surgeons said that his organs are probably not in the proper places in his abdomen, so his stomach will have to adjust to food. Wyatt looked so comfortable today and his stats were great. I noticed that his respiratory rate is much lower along with his heart rate. He is not breathing as hard which is a great thing!! Wyatt also enjoyed having a visitors other than his parents. My neighbors, Heather and Janice were so sweet to visit, and my parents were able to hold him for the first time!

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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.