Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Walk Wyatt Walk!!

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Walk Wyatt Walk!!

Wyatt will be two in October and still has NO desire to walk. He scoots really fast around, but not yet walking. We are working hard to give him every opportunity to walk. He knows what "stand up" means and when we say it and hold him up, he deliberately holds up his legs!! So his PT brought him this walker for him. He hates it and cries when we put him in it... Chloe loves it, she thinks it's a bicycle. So since Wyatt adores Chloe and looks up to her, our plan is for him to watch her play in it and then hopefully he will too!! So please keep saying Walk Wyatt Walk chants and hopefully one day he will:))

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Jen said...: When I saw the title of this post, my heart skipped a beat. I thought little man was walking all of a sudden! He'll do it - I know you can Wyatt! Walk Wyatt Walk!!!; July 23, 2009 at 2:01 AM

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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.