Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: update #2

Saturday, August 30, 2008

update #2

The docs also decided to do an IV contrast as well as throught he g-tube. We just got out of the CT scan and we are waiting for the results. Wyatt was strapped down so tightly like a mummy... I felt so bad for him, but now he is sleeping soundly. They also just did a blood culture and a special IV to equalize the acid in his stomach. Stay tuned for the results...

1 comment:

Vicki Jensen said...: Gina,
I hope you guys get some answers finally and that it's nothing that requires Wyatt to stay at Hopkins!! If you need anything we're only 45 minutes away! I'll be on pins and needles until I hear how Wyatt made out!

Keeping fingers, toes, legs, etc crossed!
Vic, James & Jack; August 30, 2008 at 6:21 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.