Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Wyatt doesn't want to go home yet....

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Wyatt doesn't want to go home yet....

update to homecoming...Wyatt heard he may come home and got a little nervous about the changes, so he decided to spike a fever of 38 degrees C. and have a heart rate of almost 200 bpm. So... we are on our way to the PICU at Hopkins. I wish we could come home instead, but if this had to happen, I would rather it happen in a hospital than at home. Stay tuned..... we'll be at Hopkins for a while.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: Oh, jeez. So sorry the little guy is sick... we're looking forward to meeting him soon!

Julia; March 6, 2008 at 6:20 PM
Anonymous said...: Gina, sorry for the setback. I'll keep praying - I'm so anxious to see him. Pam says he is really special!

Love, barb; March 6, 2008 at 6:49 PM
Anonymous said...: Dear Gina and Benji,
My heart just *hurts* for you....poor Wyatt....how many hurdles does that big guy have to jump? The finish line was right there...thinking of you always. Please tell your Mom I got her message this morning and thank her for the update...sending all the love, hugs, and prayers I can...
Karen :); March 7, 2008 at 6:34 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.