Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Great Saturday!

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Great Saturday!

Chloe spent the night over my parent's house Friday night and had a blast! They made cookies while it snowed and played with homemade PlayDough. The most exciting part of all is that Chloe got to play with Aunt Danielle and Uncle Gino. So on Saturday Wyatt and I went to my parent's house to pick up Chloe. We spent the entire day playing at my parent's house with Aunt Danielle, Mom-Mom, and Pop-Pop, Uncle Gino, and Grandmom. I think Wyatt enjoyed being in another place for a change. He was great! Uncle Gino had a photography session with both kids. We took them outside in "nature" in the 30 degree weather for pictures. It didn't work out too well... I think everyone was cold. So we brought it all inside... leaves, plants, everything to make it look some-what like nature. We even took off Wyatt's oxygen for a little bit and put on a "big boy" outfit on him. It was fun! I also think Benji enjoyed the nice long day to himself since he has been holding down the fort for the past week.

2 comments:

The Oliveri's said...: I do that too...It is nice to sneak off the nasal cannulas for a cute picture. Do you still see the cannulas when you look at a picture without them. I know that is weird but I do...; November 22, 2008 at 11:24 PM
Amber said...: What a darling picture! Wyatt is such a handsome boy!

Amber; November 23, 2008 at 2:20 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.