Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Little Scientist

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Little Scientist

Chloe loves watching Sid the Science Kid on PBS. One day the show was about melting and freezing and the kids made Popsicles. So Chloe wanted to do the same. We sliced a banana, put a Popsicle stick in it and placed it in a paper cup. Then we poured berry juice in the Dixie cup and put it in the freezer. Chloe checked it or "collected her data" about every 5 min and after a couple hours it was finally frozen. She enjoyed eating it and it was fairly healthy juice. I might try V8 next time! She is my little scientist in the making!

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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.