Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: First Sleep over

Saturday, July 4, 2009

First Sleep over

Since we don't have any nursing throughout the 4th of July holiday weekend, we decided to go to my parents for Wyatt to have his very first sleep over!! (besides the hospital, but that does not count!) I packed the car full of oxygen, power cords, medical supplies and off we went!! Wyatt did awesome and slept through the entire night. I slept in the same room with him and he only woke up twice. I however, hardly slept:)) We had a busy day yesterday with a pool party at my friend Cristina's house and then a cook out with my best friend Teaette and two of her kids, her parents, my sister and husband, and my parents. Today we have a lunch with Chloe friends and then off to see Benji's band play!! Pictures to come!!

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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.