Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Spending Saturday with Great-Grandmom

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Spending Saturday with Great-Grandmom

My grandmother is spending the weekend with us, while my sister is getting married TODAY in Japan (for her first wedding, a second one will be coming soon so that I can attend)!!! So Benji and I took shifts today and my grandmother and I went to the hospital in the morning and Benji went in the evening. Wyatt was happy and playful and then took a long nap today. No major changes and this is the first weekend in 3 weeks that he is on formula and not IV fluid!!! Wyatt is spitting up and losing weight...he now weighs just a little under 12 lbs. He lost about 1/2 lb in the past 2 weeks. His reflux medication was increased and hopefully this will help. Otherwise, Wyatt is as happy as can be.

4 comments:

Vicki Jensen said...: Hi Wyatt! Jack wanted to say hello from Connecticut! It's his first road trip. Pretty soon you'll be home and making fun trips too (no, trips to visit your friends at Hopkins doesn't count). I'm so happy to hear it's the weekend and you're on regular feeds. Jack and I are thinking of you all the time and hope you have a great weekend with your great grandma & family.
Love
Vic & Jack
- from North of the Mason Dixon and in 10 inches of new snow!; February 23, 2008 at 9:28 PM
Anonymous said...: Man, that boy of yours gets cuter with every photo! I can't wait to meet him.

Julia; February 24, 2008 at 9:03 PM
Gillian Brown said...: Hi there, Wyatt looks great!Not long til g-tube hopefuly it'll make life alot easier.Hope you are all well.

Gil and Co x; February 25, 2008 at 11:50 AM
Anonymous said...: Keep up the good work Wyatt and parents - we are rooting for you!; March 13, 2008 at 4:45 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.