Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: More Summer Fun!!

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

More Summer Fun!!

I had a great day today!! If you know me, you know I went to Space Camp THREE times in my life... the last time was just before Chloe was born. I dreamed of being an astronaut... but I became a science teacher instead. Today, I got to listen to a guest speaker who was a retired astronaut at work today. He applied to the Astronaut program FOUR times... so never give up!!

This evening we went to a carnival and Chloe and Wyatt had a blast. Chloe rode on a horse, pink car, fire truck, and inside a bear... she thought it was the neatest!! Wyatt loved wearing my sun glasses (which he lost) and dancing to all the music. Then we ended the evening with a funnel cake... who could ask for a better day than that???

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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.