Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Pulmonary Check Up

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Pulmonary Check Up

It's sideways, but here is Wyatt's most recent check x-ray dated 1/21/11. We just had our pulmonary check up on Friday, so all the results were explained to us. Bascially it's unchanged from previous x-rays. It's not a normal chest x-ray, but it's normal to us!! Here is the report:

" Pulmonary vasculature seems asymmetrical , ie. decrease in the left. Faint left infrahilar density. Somewhat blunt left lateral costophrenic angle. Moderate distention of the lower most portion of the esophagus. Metallic suture structures projecting to the left lung base. VP shunt projecting over right hemithorax and right hemiabdomen as far as included. Transcutaneous enteric tube, tip projecting to the the left upper abdominal quadrant, medially. Left lower lobe atelectasis, consistent with relative left-sided pulmonary hypoplasia. "

Did you get all that???

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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.