Thursday Night August 15th

Mighty MikeyD went back to CHOP last week for his check up with Dr. Vetter and some testing of his defibrillator and pace maker. MikeyD went through a stress test as well, Thank God everything checked out great. Mikeyd passed the stress test his heart is perfect all the damge to the left ventical from the Sudden Cardiac Arrest is healing, MikeyD's Defibrillator had no activity his little heart is healing almost as if it had never stopped beating. Little MikeyD's heart was damaged from the SCA. The big scar on his chest is looking better. It is hard to believe we are approaching the 1st anniversary of that tragic night when he was playing basketball and went down on the court. Dr Vetter said MikeyD is still dehydrated and needs to have at least 10 glasses of water  a day or a mix of water, Gatorade, or some other fluid.  Today is Dr. Vetter's Birthday. Happy Birthday from all of us I know you enjoy reading the blog. I spoke to Dr. Vetter about coming to Middletown to screen the kids she agreed. we are organizing it now unfortunately it will take us six months to plan it out there is a lot involved. We will be offering screenings to all kids in the middle school and high schools not just athletes but all kids.

Imagine if we save just one kid and one family from this tragedy ? I know we will save more than one but even just one is a major victory. I do not want one more child or their family to suffer from SCA ever again. The MikeyD recovery fund is also working on getting AED’s all over Middletown especially at outdoor sporting events to make Middletown safer for everyone especially our children of Middletown. 

Can you be sure an emergency rescue worker will always be three minutes away?
Sure enough to risk your life on it?
 the only chance a sudden cardiac arrest victim has for resuscitation is a shock from a defibrillator as soon as possible. According to the AHA (American Heart Association), defibrillation should be administered within the first three minutes of cardiac arrest. 

We all know the Mighty MikeyD story !!!

But he is a true Miracle one of the only known survivors after being down so long. All the Doctors say he is a very strong young boy.

Let’s all work together to help spread the word of the Mighty MikeyD Heart screening from CHOP coming to Middletown to help save all our children.

Right now it looks like it will be sometime in February I will keep you posted.

Please send the link to this blog to everyone you know with children the more we reach the better. I am hoping we can screen at least 500 kids. We had 141,000.00 hits since I posted 2 weeks ago. Let me know if you are interested in helping me to the spread the word for the screenings.

MIkeyD is getting stronger every week but he misses the interaction and friendship of playing sports on teams like he use to do so we are going to plan some more wiffle ball games in the fall.

MikeyD also misses being at Bayshore with his old friends.

Please pray that MikeyD will one day leave the Children’s hospital and return to Middletown and go back to Bayshore with friends where he belongs.

We Believe in Miracles !

Please keep praying and posting for MikeyD.