Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Happy St. Patty's Day!

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Happy St. Patty's Day!

Happy St. Patty's Day! We celebrated with cornbeef, cabbage, and potatoes. Chloe loved the cornbeef... Wyatt was not a big fan:)

2 comments:

LORI said...: Chloe looks older! Did she go from two to ten over night? My Chloe bear is such a big girl now!; March 19, 2009 at 9:45 PM
linda said...: So glad to hear things are going ok at your house. I know the tummy time will get better and he will get stronger. I am still missing my "Jack fix" and I am unable to log on. :(

Linda; March 24, 2009 at 1:51 AM

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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.