Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

Monday, December 29, 2008

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

This Christmas was truly memorable and I got my Christmas wish... home with my two kids together. If you recall from last year, my Christmas wish was for all of us to be together- photos. This year we stayed local and went to my parent's house for Christmas Eve dinner with my grandmother, parents, sister, her husband, my aunt/uncle. We also had a special guest from Japan who is staying with my sister and her husbad- Hiro. Christmas morning was spent at our house with just Benji, Wyatt, and Chloe, and later we went to my parent's house. Then I went to my parent's house again for the next two nights helping to prepare for the BIG family party that my parents host almost every year. So I now finally have an evening of time and quietness:)) This year, my sister got a surprise trip to Paris from her husband (she is a newlywed) (she left today), my parents both got new computers, and I got mud room accessories! (hooks, shoe rack, shelf, etc...) Wyatt and Chloe were so excited for Santa to come, especially Chloe. She left cookies and carrots our for Santa and his reindeer. This year, Chloe is older and gets so excited about Santa coming and knows the true meaning of Christmas... it made it so much more exciting. What is also exciting is that we stayed away from the hospital!! This was my best Christmas ever! My two kids and husband celebrating all together.

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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.