Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Wyatt is fine.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Wyatt is fine.

I knew today was going to be a good day when I found Chloe's shoe at the lost and found in the library. They were $46.00 Stride Rite shoes, so I was determined to find it!! Wyatt had a nice quiet day today. Today I realized that we are lucky to be at Hopkins. We have access to all kinds of specialists. The doctors came to the decision that maybe a small piece of the intestine did herniate up into the chest where the patch is located, but Wyatt does not need surgery immediately. This decision was made after several pediatric surgeons looked at the CT scan, radiologists, and a doctor who specializes in 3-D images. Since Wyatt is acting like his normal self, he will be getting transferred back to Mt. Washington at 10am tomorrow morning. He will remain at Mt. Washington until the NG tube is removed. After the holidays, Wyatt will return to Hopkins for the surgeons to exam Wyatt and afterwards a decision if Wyatt needs surgery to repair the hernia and place a G-tube in his stomach to eat will be made. Then when all this is done... we can finally bring Wyatt home. I'm not putting a time limit on it... but one day he will be home with us. I'm just taking one day at time. Until then, his home will be Mt. Washington where we will visit him every day and treat him as if were home... we are going to play with him, hold him, love him, hug him, kiss him, sing to him, read to him, etc... it will be our home.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: that's good news! I was worried about yesterday. A positive take on this is that you can trust Mt. Washington. They were the ones to discover the small hernia, even when the doctor at hopkins couldn't see it on the xray. Sounds like the dude at Mt washington saw something and they took action immediately.

I can't wait until next week! Specifically to gently rock him, nestle in his cheeks and watch him while he's sleeping.; December 13, 2007 at 8:21 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.