Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Back to Mt. Wash!

Friday, March 7, 2008

Back to Mt. Wash!

Wyatt's stats are stable and he is currently getting two antibiotics. His IV was pulled out today so the antibiotics are through his g-tube now. Around 2pm, he was transferred back to Mt. Washington. The plan is to see how the weekend goes and then determine a date to go home. Since his antibiotics are through his tube, he can go home on them. Hopefullly the weekend goes well and we will see Wyatt home soon. But I am not telling him that!!! We are trying a new strategy and I am not telling him a thing!!! Meanwhile, Chloe's room is going to get painted this weekend, and we will be even more prepared for Wyatt. I have a mini hospital room in our family room with the crib, dresser, and changing table. I even made a notebook full of charts to document his temp, feeds, medications, diapers, etc.... Our scale arrived today too!! We are all ready.

2 comments:

Vicki Jensen said...: Are you sure Wyatt's not addicted to ambulance rides? It sure seems like it from this end. OK, just kidding. That is good news though that they feel he's stable enough to go back to Mt Wash and that he can just get the antibiotics through his tube. It's great that you'll have a home nurse so that should take away any anxiety. Yeah for Chloe getting a new color in her room! She must be excited!
A word of advice for you with the scale. Don't let yourself get too crazy with day to day weights. They'll tell you 1.2 oz to 1 oz a day is what they want. Sometimes Jack would go DAYS with no weight gain then have this growth spurt and gain a few ounces in 1-2 days. It's the weekly trend that's important. If I didn't send you the Hopkins growth chart in Excel let me know. It's good to track the trends that way. I also track Jack's daily fluid intake this way but you can also tell just by how many wet diapers Wyatt has.

We're praying your little fighter gets home real soon!
Love
Vic, James & Jack; March 8, 2008 at 12:42 AM
Vicki Jensen said...: oops...just realized I wrote the wrong thing. I meant 0.5 to 1 oz per day! It's really late!
Vic; March 8, 2008 at 12:43 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.