Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: The "Real" Elmo!

Monday, September 15, 2008

The "Real" Elmo!

Chloe and Wyatt love Sesame Street and we think it's a wonderful program for little ones. Chloe started watching it a couple of months before her 2nd birthday and she loves it! So we treated Chloe to a special day of Sesame Street Live in Baltimore where she shouted... "it's the REAL Elmo!!," then to Rain Forest Cafe for lunch which she enjoyed watching the Apes and Elephants move and I think she thought they were real too! Wyatt and Chloe got to spend Saturday evening with mom-mom while we got to enjoy a neighborhood party!! I have many pictures to share, but I just realized my camera battery needs to be recharged.

Wyatt had his pulmonary appt. on Thursday. Blood work was ordered which we got today at our local Quest. I was so nervous to take him to our local Quest because Wyatt is such a hard stick. I told them I wanted their most experienced person (nicely) and they got it in the first try! Since Wyatt is on new medications, especially diuretics, the dr would like to check his electrolytes. We also saw his CT scan of his lungs up close. It looks like he has a full size right lung, but his left lung is only about 1/3 the normal size. During his reherniation, bowel was "poking" into the left lung which may be the reason for the needed increase of oxygen. Wyatt also had his physical therapy appt. today and he enjoyed sitting up, turning the pages in a book!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: I saw Sesame Street live when I was a kid. I can't wait to see the pics!

Vic; September 16, 2008 at 10:19 AM

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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.