Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Wyatt looks great! Chloe is doing a little better!

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Wyatt looks great! Chloe is doing a little better!

Well it's 1:00 in the morning and Chloe just fell asleep. She is doing much better today. We went to the doctor for a follow up visit and he prescribed more antibiotics for her ear infection. Today I actually saw her smiling and walking around. Thank goodness!! She is very clingy and will only sleep if she is holding on to me. Because I was with Chloe, I was only able to see Wyatt from 5-7pm tonight. The computers are down at McDaniel College so Benji is working from 8pm and through the night. I tell you... when it rains it pours!!! I can't complain, because our little boy Wyatt looks fantastic!! The nurses are trying to wean his oxygen and he recieved the RSV shot today. Wyatt loves to watch TV. His favorite station is a channel that shows nature stuff and plays music along with it. Mother of the year I am... encouraging my child to watch TV!! We recieved the best gift today. My friend and neighbor, Heather who works on the 6th floor and was there for a meeting today held Wyatt for 45 minutes today during her lunch break. What an awesome gift for a mom who can not be with her child and for Heather to give up her lunch for Wyatt. The only way to soothe Wyatt is to hold him and when Heather told me that today, it made my day!!! Also, I got so many e-mails from my family and friends asking if they could help in anyway. Thank you so much and hearing your encouraging words keeps us going and thinking positively. I put a counter on my blog at the bottom during Christmas week and since then 848 people checked out Wyatt's blog!!! Wow!!! I am amazed and blessed for all the people that support, care, and pray about him. My assistant principal from New Windsor Middle made him a prayer blanket which was also very thoughtful. I can't thank everyone enough. Thank you.

1 comment:

Gillian Brown said...: Hi Gina,you have a very special boy there!!I hope Wyatt is doing well and continues to go from strength to strength.We're praying this end of the world!!Kaden is now home and doing well and i hope you have your special boy home shortly too!xx Gil and Co; January 10, 2008 at 5:12 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.