Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Easter Morning

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Easter Morning

The day started at 7am when Wyatt first woke up and then Chloe shortly after at 7:30am. Chloe knew the Easter Bunny came to our house because their was a trail of eggs leading from her bedroom to the family room. Our Easter Egg hunt immediately started! Wyatt enjoyed throwing the eggs that Chloe found as you can tell from the picture below. Then Chloe enjoyed her Dora book bag for school next year while Wyatt enjoyed his bubbles. They each loved the green Mickey Mouse bouncy hopper ball!! I love that they are so close in age, that they can share toys. Then the Easter Bunny surprised them with an Elmo and Cookie Monster cupcake for breakfast!! Can you believe that? A cupcake for breakfast?? only on Easter! Chloe tasted a hard boiled egg, but she said that "it was not tasty." They each picked the cupcake they wanted, Wyatt said in a hoarse raspy voice, "ELMO" and Chloe picked Cookie Monster. Phew! I am glad that worked out because the Easter Bunny only brought one of each! Then we went off to church to celebrate the true meaning of Easter. Wyatt had a poopy diaper and I forgot to bring extras, but he feel asleep and woke up with Mass was over. Chloe was an angel:) Then off to my parent's house for an Easter feast and playtime with Aunt Danielle.

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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.