Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: First full day of preschool

Monday, September 7, 2009

First full day of preschool

Her book bag is waiting for her tomorrow filled with all those emergency, volunteer forms and of course the tissue box for her classroom... (and I added an extra change of clothes in case she has an accident!!)

Can you tell this is a picture of me?? Isn't that sweet, that she wanted to paint her mother on her book bag.. do you think she will want to do this in high school??? I don't want to be one of those moms that does everything for their child, so I told her she could do ANYTHING she wanted and she painted me!! (she gets brownie points for that!)

Chloe's first full day of preschool with out me is tomorrow. All the kids get the same book bag, so our first homework assignment was to decorate her book bag. She painted the back all by herself with her hand prints and a "picture of me" and then I ironed on letters that say "hi" next to her hands. The front, my grandmother sewed a ribbon on the top part and we ironed on name!! Chloe is super excited!!

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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.