Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: President's Day

Monday, February 18, 2008

President's Day

Wyatt has a nice day today. His feeds are back at 27ml/hr and 27 calories and he seems to be tolerating it well with formula color spit up every now and then
:) Today was President's Day, so I spent the day with Chloe and my grandmother and my friend Paula spent the day with Wyatt. After my mom came home from work, she watched Chloe and I spent time with Wyatt. Today was a long work-day for Benji... in fact he is still at work!! Tomorrow is a big day for Wyatt, we are meeting with his surgeons to formulate a plan and discuss g-tube surgery which could possibly be on the 28th. Please continue to keep Wyatt in your prayers.

3 comments:

Vicki Jensen said...: Best of luck tomorrow! Tell Fizan and Nicole that they better hurry up and get Wyatt home so Jack can meet his CDH brother (sort of like blood brothers but different!).

Tomorrow the Frederick New Post is running the story on Jack to spread CDH Awareness. It's in the Arts/Life section. I hope it came out OK! I think it's important for us to help other families and get info out there. We were so scared and had no clue what CDH was when Jack was diagnosed.

I'll be praying extra hard tomorrow for a good visit and a solid plan with the work HOME in there!

Vic; February 18, 2008 at 10:39 PM
Anonymous said...: We'll be waiting to see how the plan goes with the surgeons. Wyatt is going to be so happy to get home!

Julia; February 19, 2008 at 7:11 AM
Anonymous said...: Fingers are crossed for a positive meeting today with the Doctor's!!!
Stay well little buddy....you are almost HOME!!!!!!!
Hugs and prayers....
Love,
Karen :); February 19, 2008 at 7:15 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.