Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Go Wyatt Go!

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Go Wyatt Go!

Wyatt's cold seems to be getting a little better, but now I feel like I am getting a cold!! The support for Wyatt's Benefit has been awesome!! It was advertised in the St. John's Bulletin in church, it's on the marquee at a vet's office on route 140 (across from McDonald's), and a reporter and photographer from the Carroll County Times is coming by today to interview Wyatt! Thank you everyone for getting the word out there! It's going to be a fun night... tickets will be sold at the door as well through mail... it's not too late to get your ticket!! The more the merrier to celebrate Wyatt.

On a side note- baby Skyla needs many prayers... she is Wyatt's age and was born with CDH. She weighs 9 lbs and is still in the hospital in Australia. She just got a trach and has pneumonia. Check out her blog for all the details- http://skylacdhbaby.blogspot.com/

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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.