Sunday Night

With Christmas fast approaching us most kids are counting the days to Christmas morning. MikeyD and my family are counting the days to get MikeyD out of the hospital and home again with us so we can be one family again instead of two different units. Since you cannot come home and stay overnight as an inpatient we are trying to get MikeyD home for Christmas. Moya and I have a meeting with the doctors and all the therapist tomorrow to see if we can get MikeyD home before Christmas eve and then have him start five days a week as an outpatient for all his therapies right after Christmas. We will have to give MikeyD his needles and all his other medication at home . Moya has started giving him the needles in the hospital already she is brave I do not have the heart to give him the needles yet I am going to try and give him one tomorrow.

Julia and Ciara have been out spending all their money on buying Christmas presents for their little brother he will be spoiled for sure. When I asked Julia and Ciara a few weeks ago what they wanted for Christmas they both said they do not want anything for themselves they just want their brother home. This has been a difficult time for everyone in our family it seems even more difficult with the Christmas right around the corner. MikeyD is starting to walk more with his braces as long as someone is holding him or standing behind him to keep his balance. We need to watch him even closer now as he tries to get out of the wheelchair and start walking on his own. We took him home for a few hours on the day pass and had him sit in the recliner and he tried to get up a few times on his own and start walking. MikeyD keeps fighting the fight he tries not to use his wheelchair as much as possible despite the fact that he still needs it.I walked him around the hospital the other night and you could see in his face how proud he was to be walking I held the back of his shirt behind his back and he walked up to the nurses’  station with a big smile on his face the nurses started clapping and cheering him on. One of the girls in rec therapy seen him walking and she started crying she couldn't believe it she reads the blog all the time as well. Here’s to everyone hoping that MikeyD will be home with his family for Christmas !

 Keep the faith. We believe in Miracles !!!

Please keep praying and posting.

Unfailing Prayer to St. Anthony

"Blessed be God in His angels and in His saints."

O Holy St. Anthony, gentlest of Saints, you love for God and Charity for His creatures, made you worthy, when on earth, to possess miraculous powers. Miracles waited on your word, which you were ever ready to speak for those in trouble or anxiety. Encouraged by this thought, I implore of you to obtain for me A Full Recovery for MikeyD that he will be able to run and play with his friends again one day like he use to. The answer to my prayer may require a miracle, even so, you are the Saint of Miracles.

O gentle and loving St. Anthony, whose heart was ever full of human sympathy, whisper my petition into the ears of the Sweet Infant Jesus, who loved to be folded in your arms; and the gratitude of my heart will ever be yours. Amen.