Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Feeling better today....

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Feeling better today....

Sleeping here was no fun... Wyatt woke up almost every hour but today he feels much better. His IV got clogged so all IV liquids and medications were stopped and his IV was removed (one step in going home). Next his food is being increased at a faster rate to supplement the fluid from the IV. His pain medication was switched from fentayl IV drip (PCA) over to oxycodine and Benadryl for itching via g-tube. For a while he was very playful... becoming his old self again wanting to throw blocks and asking for Elmo (see pics bleow)... after the benadryl and oxycodine kicked in, he is very sleepy and seems out of it. I may request Tylenol for pain instead so that he can feel like his old self again.

Night-time view out my window....

1 comment:

Unknown said...: Sure does look peaceful out your night-time window! Wyatt looks pretty content as well. I hope he gets off those sleepy meds soon! 'round and 'round Wyatt!; June 20, 2009 at 8:23 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.