Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Bringing Wyatt's home to him

Friday, February 1, 2008

Bringing Wyatt's home to him

Wyatt is a growing manaic! He now weighes 12lbs 1oz... that is a weight gain of 3 ounces over a 24 hour period! Today Wyatt was wide awake all day long for his vistors- mom-mom,pop-pop, Benji, and myself. It was late before I left, because I wanted to rock him asleep and it took awhile. Yesterday a doctor told me that she was looking at the pictures of Wyatt that are hanging on his crib. (The pictures are a collage of his adventures of the past four months) The doctor said that it looks like Wyatt is really loved from the looks of his crib and I said without even thinking, "We try to bring Wyatt's home to him, since he has not been home." On my way home, I was thinking that it's true... we do bring Wyatt's home to him, and hopefully he does not think he is sick in the hospital. CDH Awareness Day is March 31st, and my friend Vicki is organizing a blood drive in honor of her son Jack, who is a CDH survivor. Once I find out more details, I'll let you know. It will be in Federick.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: let's get 'Go Wyatt Go' shirts printed before march 31!!; February 2, 2008 at 2:27 AM
Vicki Jensen said...: Holy cow. What are you feeding that boy? Seriously! Jack is 12 lbs 11.5 oz. He seems to do the ol' gain a few, hang out at the same weight 3 days and scare mommy then gain a few more. I'll tell him Wyatt's weight to see if he's got a competitive spirit and will eat more. haha! I agree with Danielle - Wyatt definitely needs a T-shirt. Maybe "I kicked CDH & ECMO's butt!" haha.

I'm so glad to hear he's doing exactly what you want...rest and grow. Only a few more days until he flies over his next and hopefully last hurdle before going home!

Vic; February 2, 2008 at 11:33 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.