Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Welcome Home Daddy!

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Welcome Home Daddy!

Wyatt's Curly Hair...

Welcome Home Daddy! I have been a single mom for 11 days while Benji has been visiting his parents and then in North Carolina for work (training). Chloe went with Benji to visit his parents and I met Benji half way last Sunday to pick her up. Gosh was it hard without him.... I have realized that Benji is such a wonderful father and husband and EXTREMELY helpful too! I had plenty of help from my parents, Whitney, and Alexi, however being a single mom for 11 days is hard... you don't get a break and besides being with the kids 24/7 you also have to clean, take out the trash, mow the lawn, etc... it's hard work!!! I loved every minute being with the kids, but I just couldn't run to the grocery store if we were out of something. Last night I packed up the crew and we walked to the grocery store to get milk and some other things. It was an unusally week too... our cat died, Wyatt ran out of his medicine, I got stung by a bee, the light bulb burned out in the garage and a few other things I can't think of now. Of all weeks to go away:)) Welcome home Daddy, we missed you:))

Also, Wyatt is getting some curly cues on the back of his head and it's so cute!!

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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.