Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Update

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Update

Wyatt's chest x-ray shows more fluid, so hopefully the lasix can take care of it. When I left the hospital he was peacefully sleeping and his stats looked good. I talked to his surgeon, Dr. Chandler tonight and it looks like we may have a plan. Dr. Carson would like to wait about one month for his shunt surgery. The general surgeons would like to wait for the g-tube surgery... until after his swallow study and shunt surgery. So it looks like we will stay at Hopkins for a little bit until his feeds are stable and then go to Mt. Washington until shunt surgery. Benji will be with Wyatt all day tomorrow. Keep cheering and praying for Wyatt. Thank you!!!

1 comment:

Vicki Jensen said...: Pee boy pee! Get rid of that nasty fluid! Just keep working at those feeds and when you ace your swallow study hopefully you'll get the green light to go home!
Prayers & cheers still comin'!
Vic, James & Jack; January 22, 2008 at 11:31 PM

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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.