Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Doing ok

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Doing ok

Post-op sleeping soundly

He may not like me taking this picture when he gets older... This is Wyatt a few minutes after leaving the OR.

Wyatt is all settled in the PICU in the spot next to where he was on ECMO. Wyatt was extubated with no problems and is sleeping soundly. When awake, he seems to be in a little pain, so he is on a fentalyn drip (pain med). He has not eaten anything from Wednesday at midnight so I am guessing he is very hungry. Hopefully the output of bile in his stomach will decrease and he will start eating soon!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Can't wait to see Wyatt back in his house! So thankful everything went well...prayers are working.
Watching your Mom put her new pic's up of Wyatt on her desk...you can't even take the smile off her face...now she has BOTH her cutie-patooties surrounding her all the time!!!!
Hugs,
Karen; April 18, 2008 at 6:50 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.