Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Weekend News

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Weekend News

Wyatt playing his flute and hanging out with Aunt Danielle!

This weekend Benji worked, so I went to my parent's house on Saturday and Sunday, my mom came over to help out so that I could get some things done. Thank you Mom!!! I really appreciate it! We also had a fun night with our good friends Joe and Maria and their kids. We had a nice dinner at our church's fish fry and then band practice (Joe, Maria, and Benji are in a band together, and I am just a groupie). It was a pretty late night as you can tell from the picture below:)

2 comments:

*super dude and super dog* said...: I love that Wyatt only has on one sock! He looks like a one man band :) Chloe looks so cute in her St. Patty's green, too.; March 18, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Maria said...: Gina,
Daniel thanks you for this picture and is glad that none of HIS friends reads this blog :)) P.S...glad you didn't get one with me snoozing, too :) We had a good time and thanks for the invite.; March 20, 2009 at 5:58 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.