Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: News Flash: Wyatt likes to EAT!!

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

News Flash: Wyatt likes to EAT!!

As you may already know, Wyatt depends totally on g-tube feeds and just eats for enjoyment. He NEVER tolerated anything close to his mouth since bottle feeds were stopped at 5 weeks old due to the vocal cord paralysis. We try every day to feed him and our nurse Susan has him loving ice coffee from Starbucks, Ben and Jerry's ice cream, chocolate pudding, anything expensive, yummy, and bad for you:))) We love our nurse Susan because it worked!!! Wyatt is starting to love to eat. He looks forward to dinner time because that's when he gets a container of Yo Baby yogurt to eat by himself and make a complete mess and we are happy about that:)) Dinner has now turned into something enjoyable. For the past two years, Benji and I ate dinner in shifts while one person tended to Wyatt the other eats with Chloe. We originally all start out at the dinner table, but Wyatt always wants to do something different since he wasn't enjoying it. Now he loves it!! We all sit, take our time, and talk. A pleasant change:))

4 comments:

Jen said...: Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!; September 3, 2009 at 12:43 AM
Unknown said...: Go Wyatt!!; September 3, 2009 at 6:50 AM
Stacy K said...: What a huge hurdle to conquer. Yeah for family dinners. How exciting. Go Wyatt!! Let mommy feed you all the yummy foods, veggies can come later. :); September 3, 2009 at 10:39 AM
LORI said...: YAY Wyatt!!!; September 6, 2009 at 11:14 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.