Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Icy Friday!

Friday, February 22, 2008

Icy Friday!

Today Wyatt was dressed in his Raven's wear swinging in his chair ready to watch a football game. I didn't have the heart to tell him that football is over. Then he decided to study about Space while lying in his bed with his space sheet and book about astronauts. Then he decided to spit up and wanted to be naked. Then he took a snooze. While Wyatt was having an active day, Chloe was hanging out with her BFF, Lily and her nanny. Overall, it was a nice, quiet day! If you want to hear a story about just finding out your baby has cdh, read baby seth's carepage- http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/babyseth . Please keep them in your prayers.

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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.