Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Wyatt Travels to My Crib!!

Monday, June 16, 2008

Wyatt Travels to My Crib!!

Well not my crib, my parents crib. It's Danielle posting today. After an hour of packing, checking and rechecking for all needed supplies, Gina, Chloe, Wyatt, three tanks of oxygen, a feeding tube and a stat machine drove the hour to Fallston to spend Father's Day with our dad. Wyatt seemed overjoyed to be out of the house. He arrived at 4 pm, stayed until 9 pm, skipped all of his naps and ignored his usual 7 pm bedtime. He was sociable and smiley the whole time. He watched us eat Maryland crabs, gazed at the sunny skies and let the fresh air hit his face. At 8:30 pm, when he couldn't stand it any longer, he passed out on his side on a blanket on the grass. I'm sure Gina will post pics soon!

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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.