Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Italian Festival

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Italian Festival

Today we went to the Italian festival just like last year at St. Leo's Church in Little Italy. My father was born in Italy and attended this same festival with his family since his childhood, so we are carrying on the tradition. Do you believe in angels? Well after I thought about this, I realized that maybe she is an angel looking over Wyatt. Tonight at the Italian festival, while we were eating our pasta dinner in the church hall, I recognized a lady from two years ago who cleaned Wyatt's spot in the NICU every day. She could speak hardly no English, so she would just smile at Wyatt for a long time and tell me that she is praying for him, by holding her hands together saying, "I pray for him." After Wyatt spent the first five weeks of his life in the NICU, I did not see her again until today. While we were waiting in line for our food, I recognized a lady cleaning the hall and it was her! Her English did not improve, but she recognized us and wanted to see Wyatt. She was so happy for him! Maybe she is an angel here to help Wyatt??

Little Italian Princess

Dancing

Hand-painting

Making crafts with Danielle

Fried Dough!

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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.