Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Happy Easter

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Happy Easter

Tomorrow morning is Easter. Last year, Wyatt was only home for 10 days and it was the first holiday we spent together as a family... however, with adventure. Chloe was running a fever and was not her self. Since the doctor's office was closed, we took her to the ER and discovered it was an ear infection. So she was not up to wearing her pretty dress, the Easter egg hunt was a flop and we missed church. However, we were TOGETHER!!! This year is a little different. We attended our neighborhood Easter egg hunt, visited the Easter Bunny at the mall, dyed eggs together, and left carrots out for the Easter bunny. Everyone is in great spirits!! (by the way, Chloe had an ear infection last week and is on Amoxicillan, the first one since last Easter!!) Tomorrow we have even more planned!! I am really making the most of it since Chloe gets so excited about the Easter Bunny and Wyatt can move around everywhere. So lets hope that tomorrow will be full of memory-making activities(happy ones!).

Tuesday is Wyatt's chest x-ray and surgery appointment to come up with a plan about reherniation. I have a feeling he did reherniate. He usually stats around 98 percent on 1/4 liter at night, but now on 1/2 liter he stats an average of 95-96 percent. We will see on Tuesday!

Happy Easter everyone!!

2 comments:

Unknown said...: I remember last Easter very well. You were so happy to have everyone at home, despite Chloe's ear infection. I'm so happy you are getting to enjoy this year without any trauma!

Love to all of you!

Laura H.; April 12, 2009 at 1:43 PM
Anonymous said...: So glad you had a wonderful busy Easter weekend. Certainly sounds like Chloe and Wyatt are "coming into their own", and I know you love that....good luck on Tuesday.
PatV.; April 12, 2009 at 7:57 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.