Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: He’s BACK🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

He’s BACK🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Wyatt has made immense progress and is ready for school! He is working hard doing five therapies a week- physical and occupational. He is determined, has a strong work ethic and is focused on getting stronger. Even though it’s a year-long recovery, we are so proud of the strides he has made since June and his positive attitude. We recently came back from a beach trip and he was walking ahead of us on the boardwalk! His pain is managed through medication as needed and he is working on advocating for himself, taking breaks as needed. We are looking forward to him just being a teen, enjoying sophomore year. There are no foreseeable surgeries, which is a first in many many years. It’s about time he enjoys life and worries less!!

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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.