Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Johns Hopkins Fundraiser for the Children's Center: "Crabbing for Cash"

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Johns Hopkins Fundraiser for the Children's Center: "Crabbing for Cash"

Everyone knows that Johns Hopkins do amazing medicine but it's really so much more then that. Everyone at Hopkins from social workers to nurses and the docs really get to know the families and make what is often the most traumatic and emotionally difficult experience of your life into something that you feel you have some control over and they let you know you have support. Giving back to the hospital that saved Wyatt's life is important to us.

Hopkins has just started their Children's Center fundraiser "Crabbing for Cash". With my 2 good friends, Vicki Jensen and Tracey Burdette, we're starting a CDH Support Group with the blessing of Hopkins. Like I said, Hopkins is a special place. We're just getting our group off the ground (I think we finally settled on a name!) but in the meantime I signed us up for the Crabbing for Cash. I put a modest goal of $200 and I hope we shatter that and raise a ton of money for Hopkins. The photo on our Hopkins webpage is the 3 of us at a Blood drive we sponsored with the Red Cross last year to raise CDH Awareness. Come to think of it, we better start planning the 2009 blood drive! Anyway, if you have a child in your family that was touched by a childhood illness I hope you'll find it in your heart and means to give a little. No amount is too small! I can guarantee that Hopkins puts this money to good use!

Click here- Wyatt's Fundraising Page for the CDH Mom's Team

Vicki and Tracey started fundraising already and our CDH Mom's Team is in the lead. Click here for details. Thank you to all who already donated.

The CDH MOM Team

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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.