Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: It's not too late to vote!

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

It's not too late to vote!

Vote on my poll above... even if it's your first time reading the blog or your millionth time reading it:)) Only 3 days left and feel free to leave a comment about your self or share your blog!

Also, don't forget to vote for my sister's job.... she really wants it!!

I think we are going to the ER today... Wyatt woke up with a fever and heart rate in the 190's. I just don't know what to do. After Motrin, he is a happy baby, but this is the 7th day in a row of having a fever. With a normal child, I would not go... thinking it was a virus, but with Wyatt it could be any number of things like shunt infection, reherniation, RSV or just a simple ear infection or virus. Who knows!! Wyatt definitely gives me gray hair and keeps me on my toes... but I love him!!!

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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.