Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: In Surgery

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

In Surgery

Wyatt's G-J surgery just started. It's a little different this time. Instead of putting him to sleep through an IV, he was given gas. We were able to be with him during this process and tried to keep him calm. Also, his Anesthesiologist, Dr. Swartz was his doctor from the PICU while on ECMO, so she knows him very well and I feel good about that! The doctor who is doing the procedure is a radiologist who will insert the new tube through his intestine using an x-ray and the existing hole. Wyatt will be intubated during the process and hopefully will be extubated in the operating room. His recovery will be in the PICU on the 7th floor and then hopefully we can go home!!! Keep those prayers coming. Oh... and Wyatt wanted to come to the hospital and let everyone know it!!.... because his wound from ECMO on his neck is becoming irritated. A stitch is coming through and it's becoming red and puffy. His surgeon, Dr. Chandler was paged and she sent the wound nurse to look at it after he went to sleep. She said, it should be ok and that the stitch is dissoluble and Wyatt's body is trying to reject it. It's always something!!

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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.