Tuesday Night

Ciara made her Confirmation last week we are so proud of her. It was great that she picked her sister Julia to be her sponsor. They both looked so pretty all dressed up. On Friday Moya and I had to go to the Children s Specialized Hospital for Brain Injury Awareness Day. We were both very surprised when we got there they had all the kids in the cafeteria along with the doctors, teachers and therapist. They had different displays set up around the room explaining about brain injury. One of the displays had a maze puzzle on it with a 3 way mirror behind it. When you stood at the display you could not see the maze by looking down you could only see it in the mirror. We had to take a pen and try and go through the maze while only being able to see it in the mirror it was very hard to try and figure it

Out. They explained to us that this is what it was like for someone with a brain injury to try and figure things out. After that we were really surprised what happened. They had MikeyD get up in front of everyone with his speech therapist next to him and he made a speech in front of everyone with some coaching from his therapist. It was very emotional for us he said hi my name is MikeyD I was playing basketball on September 7^th when my heart stopped beating and I fell to the ground  it took the people a long time to get my heart beating again and now my whole brain is damaged. I now have a hard time processing information especially when people talk to fast with that he looked out at me and said ok dad everyone started laughing. The ok dad was not part of what they had rehearsed. He then said because of my brain injury my balance is off and my body is weak so I can no longer play sports like I use to.

I also have problems with my memory. Since I started my therapies I have made a lot of progress I am learning to read and write again. Moya and I were both amazed that he was telling this story we never talked to him much about what happened that tragic day. The doctors and therapist talk to him about it all the time they say that one of the things about a brain injury is that people are aware of their injury. This is another great group of professional people that are really caring and know what they are doing. This is where MikeyD needs to be for now. Peggy had a great idea to get MikeyD involved in baseball again she said we will get some kids together and play wiffle ball. When Brian Hill heard this he said that is a great idea so we are going to get the other MikeyD – Dunne ,the Hill Boys, Sully, Rob Cassin, Sean and some others and set up some games. Barbara Cassin also had a great idea and invited MikeyD  to come over and try the batting cage in their yard. Ciara, Sully, MikeyD and myself did go over on Sunday and it was great.  MikeyD got in the cage and started pitching to the batters. He could not swing a bat just yet but that will be next. He threw a lot of pitches in the cage and every time the bucket was empty he even went around with us and picked up the balls and helped fill the bucket. That is great PT for him. We are looking forward to the wiffle ball games and going back to the batting cage one day to see MikeyD swinging a bat.

We believe in Miracles !

Please keep praying and posting for MikeyD !