Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: A summer day

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

A summer day

If you want to hear a funny story about Sputnik, click on Nanny's blog. The past two days, we have been taking advantage of summer time. Our nurse Susan walked Wyatt to the Raven's training camp yesterday and Wyatt enjoyed watching Matt Stover ?? (I have no clue about football) practice kicking the football. The training camp is held at McDaniel College which is walking distance from our house (a long walk). Today, Chloe went to training camp with my Dad and I think she was more interested in the people than watching football. Then, Whitney and I took Chloe and Wyatt to our County Fair. It was so much fun! Wyatt had the most fun of all! He enjoyed the animals, all the exhibits, watching the cake auction, and watching us eat ice cream. In fact, as Chloe was eating her ice cream he would play with her hair and she did not enjoy that! It was really cute. Wyatt smiled the entire time and Chloe loved it too. It was a late night for both of them... we got home way past their bedtime at 9:30pm. That's ok... it's what summer is all about. I'll post pics tomorrow.

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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.