Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Baby Hulk!

Monday, March 2, 2009

Baby Hulk!

I don't know what to think of these steroids, to love them or hate them... they are making Wyatt very energetic and wanting to try new things like crawling!!! He is not crawling just yet, but making much more progress in the past two days then he has ever made. At times he is able to get his feet from up and under himself and lay on his tummy. He tolerates for a short time which is a huge improvement from screaming. He has been doing this non-stop from 8am to 8pm... along with drinking from a bottle.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: You better get your running shoes ready girl, looks like your little boy is just about to "take off"!! How wonderful! It is also great about the bottle! Good luck tomorrow with the drs.appts.
PatV; March 2, 2009 at 5:00 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.