Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: ER and a Carnival

Thursday, June 27, 2024

ER and a Carnival

Wyatt Update- ER and a Carnival… Lately Wyatt’s stomach has been hurting. Yesterday the pain was intolerable. He stopped eating and drinking. After we talked to his pediatrician and GI, we took him to the ER. He was diagnosed with gastritis from all the medications. His stomach is irritated and inflamed. Malox is a wonder drug! It made him feel so much better. We changed up how we are administering the medications and he feels so much better.

In fact, today was his best day yet! Tonight we went to the carnival and won a liver cell 😂😂. He started walking independently today- short distances and just feels more like himself. He started wearing his favorite black hat again too! It’s been forever!

Today was also the second day of the intensive therapy program at KKI. Every day PT and OT. Plus there is an educator at KKI that is going to catch him up on Algebra II and the Crucible (his summer reading).

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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.