Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: The count down is on!!

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

The count down is on!!

The count down is on to Wyatt's Benefit! I am excited because we will finally get to thank everyone for all their support publicly and it's going to be a fun night with family and friends to celebrate!!! My goal is to create awareness about CDH since it occurs one in every 2,500 births. The Carroll County Times reporter and photographer came by today to write a story on Wyatt. It will probably be published on Friday. Don't worry... I will have plenty of extra copies of the paper to share and I will have a link to the article on the blog. I was just nervous because I forgot what I said and I hope I covered everything. I gave the reporter a bunch of hand-outs on CDH in case I forgot something. Wyatt was such a ham during his photography session... he was smiling and rolling towards the camera!!

Wyatt is doing much better. He actually went from 1/2 liter to 1/4 liter during waking hours which is a huge improvement from 1 liter. Now Chloe and I have a cold!!! If it's not one thing, it's something else!!!! Otherwise it's quiet on the home front. I am busy working and Wyatt is really enjoying/flirting with his two day nurses Kathy and Susan:)))

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: So glad to see Wyatt is doing well!!! Sorry to hear about you and Chloe and your colds... Hopefully you will be feeling better for the party! You just have to send me a copy of Wyatt's story in the newspaper!!!
Love "Nanny"; May 7, 2008 at 1:45 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.