Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: TV Show- HOPKINS

Thursday, July 31, 2008

TV Show- HOPKINS

Tonight's episode of Hopkins was very sad. Two pediatric patients did not make it and a 3 month old baby was abused. However, it did bring back memories. The NICU was featured in episode 6 and it's where a large chunk of Wyatt's time was spent along with myself and Benji. We formed relationships with the doctor's and nurses since we basically lived there all day long sitting on a chair holding and loving our sedated (most of the time) baby. The Hopkins NICU has about 40 beds. It has four large rooms with about 10 beds in each. Wyatt had the best spot of all! We had the Thompson room which was painted a bright peach, we had a corner spot with a rocking chair and book shelves to hold my stuff, and best of all a window! Wyatt did not have to be in the incubator... he had a nice plush crib with a few mobiles and tons of stuffed animals and signs all over. Hey.. I had to decorate his little home:)) Check out the video clips of Episode 6 which features the NICU which was Wyatt's home for so long and also became ours:)) Also, the video link on Episode 4 shows Dr. Fackler explaining the full context of his controversial statement, "Just let the child die."

Below are a few pictures of Wyatt in the NICU at 5 weeks -2 months old.

Wyatt in the PICU on ECMO between 1 day-3 weeks old

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: I watched Hopkins last night too. It gets very emotional seeing that environment. Sometimes I wonder how we spent all that time there and didn't freak out from the noise and chaos. I think you get tunnel vision and only see your baby. I'll have to check out the link for Dr. Fackler's comment!
Vic; August 1, 2008 at 3:25 PM

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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.