Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Family Time

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Family Time

How nice it is to sit down and eat dinner with out rushing off any where like a hospital. How nice is it not to drive on a highway for 1 hour during rush hour. How nice it is to have family playtime....

Thank you neighbors... I have the BEST neighbors!!!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: Look at that big boy on your lap and that little cutie patootie sitting beside you all grown up!!!!
What a great picture!!!
Hugs,
Karen :); March 14, 2008 at 7:51 AM
Vicki Jensen said...: Hey guys. Jack said he would like you to check out his blog ;-)

Vic; March 14, 2008 at 4:07 PM
Elizabeth said...: I am one of Jack's biggest fans - and Vicki has been updating me on Wyatt. Welcome Home! You have a beautiful family!

With thoughts, prayers and Lung Function chants,
Elizabeth; March 14, 2008 at 8:49 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.