Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Making Pesto!

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Making Pesto!

My mom, Chloe, and myself starting making the first batch of pesto. We mixed pine nuts, garlic, lots of basil, olive oil, and parmesan cheese together, put it in a food processor, and freezed portions in ice cube containers. We will soon have a stock of pesto for meat marinade, pasta topping, and sandwich spread!

Step 1- Taking the stems off the leaves, tearing them up and washing the leaves...

All done! Putting pesto in ice cube trays to freeze.

You don't have to tell me.. I know it looks gross... kinda like baby poop... but it tastes so good!!

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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.