Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Happy Anniversary!

Monday, June 29, 2009

Happy Anniversary!

Tuesday, June 30th is my 8th year Wedding Anniversary. Happy Anniversary Benji to a great 8 years!!! Wow.. how much we have accomplished or acquired in our 8 years-

2001- purchased our first home, married, went to Jamaica, got our dog, Abby
2002- got our cat, Sputnik, re-habed our first house by ourselves, went to Universal Studios
2003- bought a car
2005- I went to Space Camp, Benji went to Jazz Camp, also went to Europe and a great wine vacation at the Finger Lakes.
2006- sold our first home, by owner, bought another house and moved with the help of a lot of friends, lived with my parents for 1 month, Chloe was born.
2007- Wyatt was born and that has been an adventure ever since!!

So since we can't just hire an "average" babysitter... we will probably just make a nice dinner after the kids go to sleep:)

Wyatt has his post-op appt tomorrow at 8am at Hopkins, and then I am off to work!!

Happy Anniversary!!

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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.