Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Our Weekend

Monday, April 20, 2009

Our Weekend

I earned the "wife of the year" award because I persuaded my husband to go fishing with two other neighbors for the weekend while I stayed home to hold the fort down... well my hubby says I sometimes tend to exaggerate things ... it wasn't so bad... on Friday Lori (aka NANNY) was visiting from Oregon. We missed her so much, especially Chloe who gave her a giant hug when she came over to visit. It was great to see her! Chloe's best friends Molly and Lily came over for lunch to play with Nanny too!!! We had a blast... in fact Chloe played so much, skipped her nap, and went to bed early. Thank you Nanny and Amy for a great visit! Check out Nanny's blog here. On Saturday, my mom came over to help... it was a beautiful day so while she played outside with the kids, I had the opportunity to clean:((( I would of much rather of been outside playing, but I have to take advantage of the opportunity when I have it or things just would not get done. Then Saturday night Benji came home. Sunday we went to the Peep Show at our local arts center. It's three rooms of marshmallow peeps that people make sculptures from. Wyatt saw a red peep and yelled out, "ELMO!" He also liked the giant dinosaur made out of peeps and Chloe liked the dress made out of peeps. It was a nice weekend!

Pictures of our lunch date...

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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.