Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Stomach flu hits the Koger Household!

Saturday, December 29, 2007

Stomach flu hits the Koger Household!

Well... Chloe got the 24 hour stomach flu and so did Benji, and I have a cold....so I don't think it's a good idea for us to visit Wyatt. It would be horrible if we passed along our germs to him. My mom is visiting him now and is spending the day with him. Wyatt's feeds are slowly increasing... 1/4, then 1/2, and if all is well Sunday evening 3/4 and then 100 percent. He is spitting up about 5 ml every hour... I hope he does not have what we all have. We need to get Wyatt healthy and stable to get him home. Yesterday he was awake and active all day long. Aunt Danielle and four of her friends (the dream team) visited Wyatt (thank you), then I spent the afternoon with him, and then Benji, his sister, and her husband came by. It was a busy day for Wyatt because OT, PT, and Childlife came by too!!!

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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.