Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: 20,000

Monday, June 16, 2008

20,000

Wow!!! My blog just received 20,000 hits over the weekend. I never imagined so many people would be reading it. I feel obligated to keep up with it... but's it's fun and one day I'll make it into a book for Wyatt. As you read... don't grade my writing.... because half the time I am updating around midnight and just say whatever is on my mind. I originally did not share the blog and later decided to post the address on Wyatt's crib... it took off from there. I started the blog Christmas week and now it averages about 100 people a day from all over the world. It's so much more than I ever imagined. Don't worry... I have no idea who is checking... I just know the number of people each day and from what state (just check the bottom of the blog). It's relaxing at night and I think good for me to recap the day, especially during the early days when Wyatt was in the PICU. We have made so many connections and friends through this blog from around the world. It was a good decision to share it with the world... it really makes you realize that we are all part of ONE planet. Thank you to all Wyatt's supporters. We have strength because of you.

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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.