Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: The Weekend

Sunday, June 22, 2008

The Weekend

Wyatt enjoyed a weekend with just his Daddy. I went to the beach with the girls and Chloe spent the weekend with my parents and Aunt Danielle/Uncle Gino. Wyatt and Daddy ventured out to the local grocery store together and instead of driving, they walked there! They also enjoyed hanging out at with our neighbor at the neighborhood yard sale together. Tonight is his last night of the diuretics and then he will just be on Prevacid!! This Wednesday is the swallow study!! Go Wyatt Go!!

2 comments:

Vicki Jensen said...: Wyatt,
You're doing so great! Only Prevacid? That's nothin! Non-CDH babies need prevacid sometimes.

Best of luck with your swallow study. Don't let that lady scare you. Protect that airway so you can start eating yummy stuff and kick that G-tube to the curb!

Vic, James & Jack; June 23, 2008 at 9:58 PM
Anonymous said...: June 24th HAPPY BIRTHDAY GINA !!!!; June 24, 2008 at 6:44 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.