Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Benji's Office Party

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Benji's Office Party

Talking with my Daddy

Since I missed Christmas last year with being in the hospital everyday and Chloe at my parent's house, I am trying to cram every single Christmas activity in and I think I am enjoying it even more than Chloe who is now at an age in which she understands everything. Since this is her first year of really knowing about Christmas, we read the Christmas Story every night about the birth of Jesus. She requests it and fills in the blanks by saying Bethlehem, Shepard's, angels, manager, etc... When I ask her what Christmas is, she says Jesus' Birthday. I hope she stays like that! But she also knows that Santa is going to bring presents too! I just hope she keeps the REAL Christmas story in mind:)) On Friday after work, we took the kids to see Frosty the Snowman playing at a local theater on Main Street. I love our town, the local theater plays classic Christmas movies during the season for free. There is so much free stuff to take advantage of and we live only minutes away. After seeing Frosty, we had a late night of partying (until 10 pm) at Benji's office Christmas Party. Benji has been working at the same place since graduating from Lynchburg College and loves what he does and he works with a wonderful group of people. They were so understanding while Wyatt was in the hospital. He is fortunate to only work about 1 mile away from our house as a computer programmer. I think we are the only family with young kids at his work and we decided to bring them to the party. They were both perfectly behaved and we brought some toys for them to play with. Chloe was very social and enjoyed all the yummy treats. Wyatt enjoyed talking to everyone, but fell asleep around 8:30pm.

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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.