Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Tiny step backwards, but still happy

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Tiny step backwards, but still happy

Today started with my morning phone call to Wyatt' nurse. She said that he had a rough night last night and vomited twice with dried up blood. An x-ray was taken, blood work, urine sample, and a stool sample. His white blood cell count is high at 35,000 so he is now on two antibiotics and his feeds were stopped. He currently is on TPN (nutrition), fats, and fluid through his central line so he can continue to gain weight. Because of this little step back, he gets to remain in the IMC section which I am really happy about. He also had his head CT scan this morning and Dr. Carson will read the results on Monday. Wyatt had a great day! He was awake and alert for his visitors today... my high school friend Nicole and her husband Matt, and Wyatt's NICU nurse Charla. Benji and I took shifts today so I could spend time with Chloe at my parent's house. Benji read a few books to him, but Wyatt seems to move his head to look around the book to watch TV. Lets hope to make more progress on the feeds. I just made my nightly phone call to his nurse and he is sound asleep and happy.

2 comments:

Vicki Jensen said...: Let's all send positive thoughts for an AWESOME Monday! The CT results AND a swallow study. I'll be checking the blog all day waiting for an update. I hope Wyatt gets off the TPN and back on regular feeds soon. You're right though...at least he still gets to stay in IMC which is reassuring.

Keeping my fingers, toes and everything else crossed for good results on Monday!!
Vic; January 12, 2008 at 10:57 PM
Anonymous said...: yep, fingers crossed for a marvelous monday .. followed by a terrific tuesday, whopping wednesday, typical thursday, fitter friday, strong saturday topped off with a stabilized sunday.; January 13, 2008 at 9:07 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.