I thought I was done
posting for Mighty MikeyD and had done my last post. As I said before I do not
want to bore anyone.
I will give a
quick update on MikeyD at the end of this
post. This post is more about the MikeyD
Heart screening for the Kids. As I promised before that when MikeyD was
recovering and doing better Our family would pay it forward to help save the
lives of other Children. We are doing that every day now and will continue to
do it forever through the MikeyD Foundation that we set up. To date we have
saved 11 Lives that we know of and hopefully more that we do not know of. Some
have been as far away as Dallas Texas as a matter of fact we had 2 kids on the
same team in Dallas that were screened and found a problem. One we found out
about just the other night Moya met a friend in Middletown who’s kids went to
school with our kids they have 3 kids and had all three screened and one had a heart
condition that was number 11. We are having the Heart screening that we had to postpone last time
due to the overwhelming response with the help of the Dolan family on Saturday September
27th at St. Mary’s Mater Dei High
School Gym. We had the same overwhelming response this time but we were ready
for it as far as Medical staff.
Right now we have
500 Kids signed up. Do you believe 500 kids on a Saturday coming to get a Heart
screening from the best Children’s Hospital in the country ? I think Mighty
Mikeyd is doing his job in spreading the word and saving kids’ lives.
People are
listening and becoming aware of this growing problem. Middletown football even
canceled a practice due to the heat.
We have one small
problem we need a lot of Volunteers we will have over 1000 people coming
through for the day.
We still need
more Nurses for taking Height, Weight and blood pressure. We could use EKG and
Echo techs. While the kids are in line for screenings we will be teaching them
how to use an AED and how to do CPR so we still need more volunteers who can
demonstrate CPR.
We need to go to
CHOP on Friday night load a truck with medical equipment and drive it to Mater
Dei that night.
We need help to
unload that truck on Saturday morning.
We will need help
to load that truck up on Saturday afternoon and have someone bring it back to
CHOP Saturday or Sunday.
We will need
people to help with the registration table the Consent table and the sign out
table. We will need help with the foot traffic and directing people where to go
next.
So it is not just
medical people that we need. Please forward this link to the Mighty MikeyD site
to as many people as you can to see if we can get some help for
this great cause saving Children’s Lives !
You can email
Lorraine at lgoode50@gmail.com or let
us know on the blog here if you can help us out .
Quick update on
Mighty MikeyD the fighter he is transitioning from the Children’s Specialized
Hospital to Bayshore Middle school. That boy never ever gives up he keeps on
doing what they said could not be done. I spoke with one of his Physical
therapist the other day and she said I know this may not have been the path
that he chose but you should be very proud of him he has come a long way and
she has never met anyone with that kind of drive he keeps pushing himself while
others sit around and say they had enough. He still battles every day with
memory and learning disabilities but he battles .We believe in the Miracle we all
witnessed with all your prayers and support from a great community.
Thank you.
We Believe in Miracles !!!
Please
keep praying for MikeyD’ Recovery !!!