Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Wyatt not feeling well:((

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Wyatt not feeling well:((

Our little guy keeps us on our toes. Today he was not feeling well and had symptoms like the time he was hospitalized over Thanksgiving. However, he did not have a high heart rate or o2 destats. He slept most of the day, which is very unlike him and cried out in his sleep. We switched him over to pedilyte to prevent dehydration like last time, gave him Motrin and Tyenol, suctioned him, and gave him his breathing treatments and gave him lots of snuggling. I am hoping he will sleep soundly throughout the night and be back to his old self tomorrow. I guess we will be struggling with this most of the winter. We are trying to keep him away from most public places, for example, I did not take him to story time or church this week... but he can't live in a bubble either so I am trying to pick and choose the places we go with him. Tomorrow is the big ECMO Christmas Party at Hopkins, but since Wyatt was not feeling well today, I not too sure it's a good to take him. We will see. Say a little pray for him, because I know he does not feel well.

Chloe was so cute today. My mom gave her a Christmas present today- a manger. She plays with it non stop, names Mary, Joesph, and Baby Jesus... however the Shepard's were missing. So off we went to the grocery store to "look for shepherds." I really had to pick up Wyatt medicine, but Chloe was looking for shepherds. She found little nutcracker men and said, "Look Mommy, there are shepherds!" So I spent the $5.99 to buy nutcracker men and now they are living in our manger as shepherds. Before bed we read the Christmas story and she amazed me by reciting "Glory to God in the highest, and on Earth Peace, good will toward men." It is amazing was humans can learn in just two years.

Besides reading CDH blogs, and my friends blog, I also read John Mayer's blog. It's so cool because it's not an advertisement for his work. He blogs just like any person would and he seems to be down to Earth. He is having a baking contest... so enter and you could win!

2 comments:

LORI said...: I will say a little prayer for Wyatt! Hopefully he will get plenty of rest and fight off this little bug.

I'm sure Chloe appreciates her $6 nutcracker men! Thats so funny. I can't wait to see her :)She is such a big girl now.; December 11, 2008 at 11:37 AM
mummy to angel SKYLA said...: Oh Wyatt, i hope he starts to feel better real soon. I hope he gets to go to the ECMO party. He sure does like to keep you on your toes Gina. Take care

Kristy, angel SKYLA'S mummy; December 11, 2008 at 3:19 PM

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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.