Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Sleep Study

Friday, January 8, 2010

Sleep Study

We are still waiting for the results, but Wyatt had a sleep study on Sunday, Jan. 3rd. Benji slept with him at Mt. Washington Hospital and said it was not fun:(( Wyatt came home exhausted the next day and not unless we REALLY REALLY need one again, I not going to put a two year old through that again. Of course I will do what is best for Wyatt but Benji said that he screamed for an hour while they put probes all over his head, wrapped his head in gauze, put probes all over his body and put two belts around him and then he fell asleep from exhaustion from screaming. They were both awoken at 5:30am to go home. When they arrived at home, Wyatt had "glue" all over his hair so I had to give him a bath and then he took a four hour nap!! I can only imagine with out any type of sediative that he thought he was being tortured!!! We always take doctor recommendations very seriously, so I hope it's for the best!! Good news is that it is all forgotton and Wyatt is back to his old self!!

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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.