Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Practicing our smiles!

Monday, March 17, 2008

Practicing our smiles!

I just had to put this one of Sputnik in here.... He thinks he is the boss!

Chloe says.. "Wyatt, Let's play peek a boo!"

Everybody cry now!! all at once!!

Today, Wyatt and I practiced our smiles. He had a bath, changed his nasal cannules, pulse ox, cleaned his g-tube site and the o2 guy delivered six cute little o2 tanks so we can travel around the house and to has three doctor appointments this week. Wyatt is also back to his baseline oxygen at 1/8 liter and his stats are good between 98-100 percent, so that's a good feeling! The last time we were at 1/2 liter was in the NICU when Wyatt was much younger and more fragile. He also gained an ounce. Overall, it was a nice day and Wyatt enjoyed watching Baby Einstein and playing with Chloe's toys while she was with Nanny (shhh... don't tell Chloe).

No comments:

Post a Comment

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.