Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Starting to eat again...

Sunday, January 6, 2008

Starting to eat again...

Wyatt looks great! He is ignoring his pain medication and likes to be wide awake looking around. I changed out his moblie today so that he has something different to look at. Wyatt is starting feeds today.... very little about 3 cc's every hour for three hours. Hopefully he will tolerate it so it can be increased. Chloe is sick so I divided my time up with her and Wyatt. It's tough because I want to be with both of them all day long. If all is well, Wyatt will move to the 6th floor on Monday... hopefully to the IMC section where there is a nurse near him at all times.

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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.