Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: A weekend alone with the kids....

Sunday, July 19, 2009

A weekend alone with the kids....

Benji's parents moved into a new house just 15 minutes from us (they use to live 5 hours away!!) We are so happy they will be close to us!! Benji left on Thursday to help them move and was back Sunday evening. So that left me alone with the kids... my Mom came to help on Friday and to help me clean the house (thank you!!) On Saturday, I decided to take them to a festival in town. Wyatt and Chloe enjoyed listening to the band while we ate lunch on the bench. As you can see from the picture, Wyatt kept going "round and round" on the bench and enjoyed helping Chloe drink her water. I was even brave enough to take them both to a pool party. On Sunday we had to leave Church early because Wyatt kept yelling out "READY!!" and "GET DOWN." All I needed was the icing on the cake and for Chloe wanting to go potty, now that we are in the middle of potty training... so we left early:))

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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.