Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Progressing!

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Progressing!

Wyatt had his six week follow up surgery appointment and X-ray. Things are looking good. He is complaining less about pain and stomach aches. He still gets a little dizzy and uses the wheel chair if he is walking long distances but he is walking more and acting more like himself! He walked up the steps to the Calvert Hall stadium to the top with his friends yesterday which was awesome! Today he is at Knobles Amusement Park playing carnival games- his fav!!! Now he has to buckle down and do his summer homework- reading two books before school begins at the end of the month.

Knobles Anusement Park

Top of the Stadium!

Baking six cakes for the 4-H Cake Auction

Follow Ip appointment 6 weeks after surgery- before and after

Physical Therapy three times a week

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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.