Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Santa Claus is coming to town!!

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Santa Claus is coming to town!!

It's after midnight and everyone is sleeping. Soon it will be Christmas morning and Chloe will be super excited that Santa came!! It won't be the same with out Wyatt... all our family wants for Christmas is for Wyatt to be home, happy, and healthy. He is currently on IV fluid and not getting feed because he has brown blood in his spit up. The docs are giving his digestive system a break to heal. Our holiday wish is for Wyatt to have no more bloody spit up and for his vocal cords to heal so he does not have to get surgery. A very kind nurse, Danielle gave Wyatt a baby Shriek for Christmas.... thank you:)) Christmas morning will be spent with Chloe making memories and then with Wyatt making memories. We are looking forward to next Christmas when we can all be together. However, we will bring the video camera, Wyatt will open his presents and celebrate his first Christmas... it will be just like home!!

2 comments:

Vicki Jensen said...: MERRY CHRISTMAS Gina, Benji, Chloe & Wyatt!
Love,
Vicki, James & Jack; December 25, 2007 at 9:10 AM
Vicki Jensen said...: MERRY CHRISTMAS Gina, Benji, Chloe & Wyatt!
Love,
Vicki, James & Jack; December 25, 2007 at 9:10 AM

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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.