Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Happy Kids

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Happy Kids

Ring Around the Rosy

All Fall Down!

Last night my mom and sister came over and we had a celebration dinner to welcome back Wyatt... and Chloe too! We celebrated by playing the drums... Wyatt's favorite... he didn't want to let go of his drum stick and by playing "ring around the rosey... all fall down!" It was a fun, refreshing night! Now we are all ready to stay cozy in the house as a family preparing for Hurricane Hanna to arrive... just the medicine we need!

1 comment:

Unknown said...: You all look great! Wyatt is so big.

All my love!
Sydney; September 6, 2008 at 12:56 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.