Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Valentine's Day

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Valentine's Day

Grand-mom, Aunt Danielle, and Chloe enjoying coffee drinks (Chloe is drinking chocolate milk)as they all watch "The Bear goes Potty."

Wyatt loves to swing upside down! He has no fear!!!

Chloe loves when Aunt Danielle pushes her.. they could swing like this for hours.

My mother gave my daughter a bag of flour for my Valentine's present. On the back was a note stating that in the recent state of econonmy, flowers were too expensive...so here is a bag of flour! Get it... flower=flour!!

This is how you celebrate Valentine's Day when you have two little kids and can not hire just the average babysitter. It's better this way:))

Valentine's Day was a fun day! Chloe spent the night at my parent's house Friday night. That evening my mom and sister took Chloe to see a magic show. Five minutes into the show, Chloe asked very politely- "May I please go home, this is too loud." So they left and went out to eat. Saturday morning, Wyatt and I went to my parents to pick Chloe up. It was a fun day of lounging around with Grand mom, Mom-mom, Pop-pop, Aunt Danielle, etc... When we arrived back home, Benji and I celebrated Valentine's Day by getting take-out Thai food. We were thinking, even before kids we always stayed in on Valentine's Day and made our own dinner... so I guessed we kept with tradition. Click here to read about last year.

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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.