Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Christmas 2009

Friday, December 25, 2009

Christmas 2009

We had a very nice Christmas together as a family. We celebrated with Benji's parents, his sister and her husband, my parents, and my grandmother, sister, and her husband. We started last night with dinner with my family, breakfast with Benji's family, then everyone together for dinner. Some of the highlights for the kids are pictured below. Wyatt loves tractors so he was so surprised to get a tractor he could ride. Both kids loved the drum set and played it all day:) However, the most favorite gift of all was Chloe's Jack in the Box... she said, "Santa listened to me!." Tomorrow night is Benji's band first public gig... if you live locally we hope you can join us. See above for info. A slide show with all the pics will be posted soon:)

A new tradition, reading the Night Before Christmas on Christmas Eve.

1 comment:

Jen said...: Love the matching jammies! Merry Christmas!!

Jen, Kenny, and Sofie; December 25, 2009 at 11:31 PM

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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.