Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Peaceful Saturday

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Peaceful Saturday

Benji and I are here together at the hospital all day today and Wyatt is asleep in his arms. It's so peaceful!! Wyatt's calories are going to increase from 24 to 27 so he can gain more weight. I am sitting here in the chair next to them on my computer. It feels like home! Benji and I played with Chloe this morning and brought her to the hospital to switch her over to my parents. Unfortunately, she was unable to visit Wyatt, but her eyes were so big just looking around. It was the first time she was ever inside Hopkins. I want to say hi to my family in Italy who has been checking the blog. It's amazing how small our world is!!

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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.