Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: A great day!

Monday, March 24, 2008

A great day!

I did it! My first full day with Chloe and Wyatt was a success! It was crazy fun! The morning was a little hectic, but after everyone settled down, we just played all day. At 1:30pm, they both took one hour naps and that was the only break I had all day from 6am until now. It was so fun to be with the both of them and I finally had time to watch Chloe play. Gosh she is getting to be such a big girl. She is using more of her imagination by reading books to her stuffed animals, etc... Tomorrow Wyatt goes for a GI appointment at Hopkins and it's Chloe's first day with our neighbor Jan!!! Thanks to my friend Whitney for surprising us with dinner and to Amy and Jobe for bringing Lily and Molly over to play with Chloe!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Gina, can you tell us how to print a picture of Wyatt from your blog?; March 25, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Anonymous said...: Gina, can you tell us how to print a picture of Wyatt from your blog?; March 25, 2008 at 12:11 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.