Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: A Day at the Beach

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

A Day at the Beach

Chloe and I went on our first vacation of the summer today- one day at Lewes Beach with my parents and sister. The beach is our favorite and it's a great day trip since it's not crowded and only about 2 1/2 hours from my parent's house. Lewes Beach is in Delaware and it's so quaint, no high rise buildings, space between families at the beach, and the cutest little shops. You can even take the ferry to Cape May if you like. The last time Chloe went to the beach was this time last year, so she forgot what walking on sand was like. It's really cool to experience the firsts of a child like discovering waves, walking on sand, finding rocks/shells. I can't wait to experience that with Wyatt... hopefully next year! It took a little while for Chloe to warm up to everything. She always likes to be clean and getting sand on her irritated her. I don't know where she gets that from... maybe her father?? Overall it was a great day and here I am blogging at almost midnight! I can't wait to take Wyatt to the beach!

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Anonymous said...: Oh my goodness... Chloe looks so precious in her little pink bathing suit!!! I was actually just thinking about Chloe the other day and how much you used to hate the baby pool when she was a baby!!! "Nanny" will be home next Friday!!!! YAY!; August 17, 2008 at 7:43 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.