Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Bingo Day!

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Bingo Day!

Every Wednesday at Hopkins is hospital bingo. Wyatt looks forward to playing anytime he is there on a Wednesday! I look forward to Thursdays for free lunch (Panera, Little Italy, etc…) and mini back massages for the parents. Last week, both were missed because of the state Wyatt was in. He had no desire to play Bingo. Today is a different story, he played and won 3 rounds! (You play from your hospital bed, watch it on TV, and call it in if you won- then they announce you as a winner on TV- if you didn’t win any rounds- you usually get something for hospital bingo!! ). It looks like the shunt will be placed next week- infectious disease gave their blessing- then home. Neurology came by today to look at his weak left arm and he had is last drain removed from his back- the deep one. I am home for a couple days to work and a couple doctor appointments myself. It’s strange being away from the hospital. No pics because Benji is with him 😂

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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.