Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Merry Christmas

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from our family to yours.

In other CDH News... I have been following baby Oliva who is a twin and was born with CDH. Her parents are super heroes living in FL temporally to get the best care for their newborn daughter Oliva and her twin Mason. I can't imagine caring for a new born PLUS having another new born in the hospital on ECMO. She is being cared for at Shands by the world renowned CDH doctor Kays. Check out her blog, she just had surgery yesterday. Baby Carter is continuing to do awesome. Check out his blog and a reminder how important it is of CDH awareness.

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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.