Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: No more oxygen!!

Saturday, February 9, 2008

No more oxygen!!

I never thought this day would arrive, but it did.... Wyatt is off oxygen and is doing just fine!!! When Wyatt was born, we would not have survived with out oxygen. He endured ECMO, ocillator, ventalator, CPAP, Oxygen, and now... NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One less tube. Well, it looks like we have a plan. We will be seeing our surgeon, Dr. Abduallah in two weeks in clinic and then possible G-tube surgery. The G-tube surgery is scheduled, just in case we do it. It looks like he will get a G-tube and this will get him home faster!! Today, I worked, so my Dad spent the day with Wyatt, then after work, I played with Chloe until bedtime, put her to bed, and then went to the hospital to play with Wyatt, and then came home to blog... just call me supermom!!! No, actually my mom is supermom--- she watches Chloe, cleans my house, spends time with Wyatt, made dinner for us tonight, does our laundry, and she even works full time (actually more than 40 hrs a week)!!! She is supermom!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Gina and Gina's Mom,
Like I've said before, it's genetic! You are both super! And you have a super strong son and grandson! I pray not just for Wyatt but for the strength of the women who are loving and supporting him and the families around him.
PatV.; February 9, 2008 at 8:45 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.