Happy 4th Birthday of your new Life !

Happy 2^nd Birthday MikeyD !!!

It is hard to believe that at 7 PM tonight it was 4 years since that tragic night on the basketball court. Today you are known as the miracle in sneakers to all the doctors. No one can believe what a comeback you have made. You fight to comeback stronger every day and never complain. You try harder every day to be the best. You are an inspiration to everyone you meet.  We are so proud of you !

We love you more than you will ever know.

We thank all our family ,friends and everyone else who prayed to God for you around the world asking for your miracle.

We believe in Miracles !!!

The MikeyD Foundation will be doing another Heart Screening to save kids’ lives .

It will be in Monmouth Beach on November 5^th.

If you know of any kids that have not had a heart screening please pass the word along.

Thanks

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and

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Happy Birthday MikeyD !!!

1/15/15
Happy Birthday Mighty MikeyD !!!
The Miracle in Sneakers !!!
You are a true inspiration to all of us.
We Thank God Everyday that we get a chance to celebrate another Birthday with you.
keep up the fight for a great comeback.
Keep saving Lives of others one at a time.
we Love you Buddy !!!

Merry Christmas to all of you !

The Christmas Miracle continues. Mighty MikeyD the Miracle in sneakers has come a long way in the past year. Two years ago today MikeyD came home from the hospital in his new wheelchair.
He continues to battle back everyday. Now he is back at Bayshore in his old familiar setting with great friends and great teachers, What a support system for him. MikeyD is learning to play basketball again last Sunday night we had an AWG huddle it was awesome  to see a great group of fathers and sons that were praying for MikeyD's recovery watch him not only play basketball but watch him score. Thanks to each and every one of you for your prayers and support God continues to heal the little miracle boy. 

We truly believe it is because of all your prayers.

No one can believe MikeyD is doing what he is doing the Neurologist look at his brain scan and they are amazed.

We ask God this Christmas to please continue to heal our MikeyD.

Christmas Triduum Prayer.

O Divine Jesus, the Heavenly message at your birth was "peace on earth and  goodwill to all" bring your peace , your joy , your happiness, into our home this Christmas, bless all the members of our family and friends reading this, those at home and those who  will be absent this Christmas. Inflame our hearts with your love . Keep us close to you and each other now and throughout the year ahead.

Amen !!!

Keep the faith.. We believe in Miracles.

please keep praying and posting for MikeyD
You can Wish MikeyD a Merry Christmas right here,

Thanks to all of you for helping us make the Heart Screening for the Children a major success,
At the screening alone we helped save the lives of 17 children and saved the families a lot of pain and suffering hopefully the MikeyD foundation will save more live in 2015 and beyond.
We received an email from a mom on Saturday whose son was at the screening and had a very successful surgery at CHOP on Friday. That is one of the best Christmas Presents we could ever receive.

From all the Doherty family to all of you and your families we wish you and yours a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy Healthy New Year !!!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you !

On behalf of the Doherty and the Dolan family this Thanksgiving we would like to give thanks to all of you who helped make the Heart screening for the kids such a success that day. I do not want to mention anyone's name in case I  forget someone. We would like to thank all the volunteers ,  Doctors and Nurses . St Mary’s, Mater Dei . Bayshore CHOP, and Youth Heart Watch.  Together  we potentially saved the lives of 17 children that day.

 I would like to share with you one of the phone calls I received from a little boy’s mother who called to thank us for doing the Heart screening. When she started to tell me the story I got the chills. Her son was scheduled to have surgery a few weeks after the screening for something non heart related she told me that they did the pre-op  work and said he was approved for the surgery . While at the screening he was diagnosed with Wolf -Parkinson- White syndrome an electrical problem of the heart. The doctors told her if he had the surgery he would of went into Sudden Cardiac Arrest while under anesthesia . this is just one of the many reasons for you to know that volunteering your time that day was well worth it. Thank you all again for giving us your time on a Saturday to help save children’s lives and save their parents the pain and suffering. We know all too well firsthand as a family the heartache pain and suffering that a mother, father, brother , sister and the rest of the family relatives  go through after SCA of a child. Two Thanksgivings ago little MikeyD was in a wheelchair could not use his hand or arms and could not speak.

Thanks to God and all of you praying for him we live with a miracle every day. As we look back and reflect on the journey we can only say thank you to each and every one of you for all your prayers and support. MikeyD will continue to save other children. I promise.

Thank you all again for everything especially Praying and posting your kind words of support here for MikeyD.

Please remember MikeyD in your prayers on this Thanksgiving As Well for his continued recovery on the long road back.

We wish all of you and your families a Happy, Healthy and Blessed Thanksgiving from all the Doherty’s 

Please see the  new recovery Flipagram  below that Ciara made for her brother when you have a chance.

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Please keep praying for MikeyD’ Recovery !!!

Help Me Thanksgiving  Prayer

O God, when I have food,
help me to remember the hungry;
When I have work,
help me to remember the jobless;
When I have a home,
help me to remember those who have no home at all;
When I am without pain,
help me to remember those who suffer,
And remembering,
help me to destroy my complacency;
bestir my compassion,
and be concerned enough to help
By word and deed,
those who cry out for what we take for granted.

Amen.  

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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILtoyif_FrU

Remember 

We Believe in Miracles !!!

The Mighty MikeyD Heart Screening for the Kids ! Volunteers Needed.

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 27^th 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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILtoyif_FrU
Remember 

We Believe in Miracles !!!

Please keep praying for MikeyD’ Recovery !!!

Busy Week Bayshore and HS North Graduations !

Mighty MikeyD continues in warrior mode. He is  fighting hard every day to battle back from the traumatic brain injury. He started his  transition back to Bayshore on Monday and Friday's. This has been great for him and has really made him feel good to get to see all his friends and classmates and not have to go to travel and hour each way to the hospital every day. MikeyD will be part of the graduation ceremony at Bayshore tomorrow night. Although he will not be officially graduating he will be walking with his friends and classmates as if he was. MikeyD has come a long way but still has a long way to go. MikeyD will be going back to the hospital every day for the summer to continue all his therapies. In September he will start his official transition back to Bayshore for the new school year he will go to the hospital 3 days a week and Bayshore 2 days a week and then Bayshore 3 days a week and the hospital 2 days a week. MikeyD said he will really miss all his friends who will be moving on. One of MikeyD’s Guardian Angels will also be graduating this week his sister Julia will be graduating on Thursday night. Congratulations Julia we are so proud of you. Thank you to Julia and Ciara for taking such great care of MikeyD. Two of MikeyD’s other guardian angels were give hero awards by the American Heart Association Bob and Rob picture of MikeyD and Bob at the award ceremony above.    Right now it  looks like The MikeyD Foundation Heart Screening for the kids will be Saturday September 27^th not official yet as soon as the date is confirmed we will let everyone know. The goal of the MikeyD foundation is to save lives of children and educate parents and coaches on SCA and Dehydration. Please keep spreading the word on the MikeyD Youth Heart screening the more we screen and educate the better.

 We will keep you posted here and at www.mightymikeyd.com  

Remember especially now that the warm weather is here to keep kids hydrated before any games or practice. We would like to thank everyone at Bayshore school for taking such great care of MikeyD we cannot thank all of you enough we really appreciate it.

You can congratulate Julia and MikeyD right here.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILtoyif_FrU
Remember 

We Believe in Miracles !!!

Please keep praying and posting for MikeyD !!!

Operation Air-Lift and Confirmation !

Mighty MikeyD has a busy week this week. He got up at 4 AM on  Tuesday morning to head for Disney World with the State Police ! Every year the NJ State Police take a few children that have been very sick to Disney world for the day. They flew out of the State Police hanger in Ewing Township Early Tuesday morning and fly back late the same night. Wednesday Was a  very big day for MikeyD we all had a day that we never thought we would have Thanks to God and Peggy Dunne MikeyD Made his confirmation  sitting next to his cousin Brendan. Who would of thought one year ago that MikeyD would be able to make his confirmation. Peggy we will never be able to thank you enough for what you have done for MikeyD it was so Awesome to see him make his confirmation.

Please see note from Father Carlos that made us all feel great!

“ Congratulations Michael "Joseph" on your confirmation day. Your lifted up our hearts and spirits to God even higher today when we saw you proceeding into Church with the other teens. Mikey You are a living sign for all of us of how true and real the power of prayer is. Mikey my brother keep up the good work and know that you and your family continue to be in my prayers. May God bless us all and may Saint Joseph intercede for us all.”

 The doctors have also taken MikeyD off some of his medication and we have seen a major improvement. He was taking medication for muscle spasms caused by the traumatic brain injury, We had no idea how bad the side effects were from that medicine. MikeyD is talking and walking much better, in  the last few weeks we have seen a major recovery.

We are trying very hard to get MikeyD back to Bayshore for a day or two a week before the end of the year to start his transition back for next year.

We will keep you posted.

 It is a shame they left him out of the yearbook at Bayshore School.

I guess the old saying is true out of sight is out of mind they forgot all about MikeyD.

The screening will be bigger and better that ever.

Please keep spreading the word about the screening.

Right now it looks like it will be in September.

This will also give The MikeyD Foundation more time to raise the funds needed to screen all the Children.

We will keep you posted here and at www.mightymikeyd.com
You can Congratulate MikeyD on his confirmation right here.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILtoyif_FrU
Remember 

We Believe in Miracles !!!

Please keep praying and posting for MikeyD !!!

Monday April 21st

I am very sorry to have to do this post tonight.  I really could not believe the call I received from Dr. Vetter the other day when she told me the bad news. She told me weeks ago that they have never had a response like this for any screening that they have ever done before. they asked me to stop talking to people about the screening and said whoever I was talking to about the Heart Screening for kids were listening. they usually only get 100 to 150 kids sign up for a screening in any area. We had filled all the appointments in a day and a half after the web site was opened and they had to shut it down. We had 382 kids signed up for the screening and 150 kids on the waiting list. Unfortunately for this Saturday they could not get enough EKG and Echo techs scheduled to work to cover all the kids we had she said every family would be waiting for over three hours in line just to get through the screening and we still would not get to the 382 already signed up. She has promised me that we will screen all 532 kids on the new date. I will let everyone know as soon as possible after I have the new date. My family and the Dolan Family have worked very hard on putting this screening together and raising Funds from sponsors to pay for the screening. We will have more time now to raise funding for the extra 150 kids. I am ashamed and embarrassed that they  had to reschedule this screening. I feel like I have let everyone down.

I would like  to sincerely apologize to everyone and I hope you will understand this was totally out of my control. I am very sorry. I promise you we will screen all 532 kids. My good friend Barbara tried to make me feel better and brought up a very good positive thought she said the new date will screen the other 150 kids and a few of them may just be the kids that really needed it and will be saved from the screening.

Please forward the link for www.mightymikeyd.com  to as many people as you can via Facebook etc so they will know that this Saturday we will not be at St.Marys/Mater Dei and they can be on the lookout for the new date.

Meanwhile please keep MikeyD in your prayers for his recovery to continue. We believe in the power of prayer especially in numbers the more the better.

God grant me the serenity 
to accept the things I cannot change; 
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

****Please see letter below from CHOP****

Due to the overwhelming response to the Heart Health Screening on April 26^th at St. Mary’s Mater Dei High School in Middletown, NJ, we are going to postpone our screening until the fall of 2014 to accommodate a larger number of children.  We apologize for the delay and look forward to seeing you in the fall.

For those of you who have completed the Heart Health Questionnaire, we will securely maintain your information.  We will e-mail you approximately 4 weeks prior to the next screening date to allow you to choose another appointment time for the next screening and give us an update on your child’s health history. 

Thank you for your understanding.

The Heart Health Screening Study Team:  Dr. Victoria Vetter, Noreen Dugan, and Danielle Haley

For any additional questions, please call/e-mail Noreen Dugan.

Noreen P. Dugan, RN, BSN, CCRC, HP(ASCP)

Clinical Project Manager

Clinical Trials Office

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

3535 Market Street, Office #1048

Philadelphia, Pa.  19104

 E-mail - youthheartwatch@email.chop.edu

Telephone - 267-426-5247

Beeper - 215-590-1000   Pager# - 21890

Fax - 267-426-8134

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILtoyif_FrU
Remember 

We Believe in Miracles !!!

Please keep praying and posting for MikeyD !!!

Wednesday April 9th

Mighty MikeyD is heading back to CHOP in the morning for some testing with Dr.Vetter. he will have his ICD implanted defibrillator checked out as well as some other testing.

They will check the leaky valve that was damaged from the SCA to see if it is healing.

Dr. Vetter will do a heart screening on MikeyD just the same as we will be doing for all the kids on April 26^th at St. Mary’s/Mater Dei. I am sorry I did not get to post the link here because the response from the flyers was so successful that appointments were filled in a day and a half. CHOP told me to please stop spreading the word. They said they have never had a response to a screening like this one before. Right  now we have over 300 children signed up for the screening. We are going to talk to Dr. Vetter tomorrow and ask her to please add some more so please check back and I will post the link here on the MikeyD blog site if she agrees. The MikeyD Fund will do more screenings in the future if you do not get an appointment this time you will be first in kine for the next one.  Also right now due to the amount of children we have signed up we need some more help. If anyone knows a nurse, ECG tech , Echo tech , CPR trainer and anyone else who can help with registration loading and unloading the medical equipment please pass them the link to this site and ask them to post or send an email to lgoode50@gmail.com   that will be greatly appreciated.

The more help we get the better.

We are happy that Rob and Denise Mason have joined us in our fight to save other children from SCA and  save other families from the unbelievable shock, trauma and lifelong sorrow a tragedy such as SUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST brings. We will save a lot of children from the heart screenings and a lot of children from the CPR and AED training. Also by working on getting laws passed that make sure every sports team has an AED at every game and practice as well as coaches certified in CPR.

We will have CPR and AED training at the screening on April 26^th so please stop in. Warm weather is coming please keep all Kids Hydrated before any practice or games.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILtoyif_FrU  
Remember 

We Believe in Miracles !!!

Please keep praying and posting for MikeyD !!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day !

Mighty MikeyD  is still recovering and getting better and stronger. He continues to Improve which is a great thing especially after the traumatic brain injury no one knows how far back you can come with a brain injury.

Moya, Julia , Ciara and I had a family meeting with the Children's Specialized Hospital last week. Unfortunately they are not ready to release him form the Hospital yet. We were hoping they would start transitioning him back to Bayshore in April at least one day a week and then two days a week . The bad news is they said he will not be ready to be released from the hospital until next year meaning school year like next September or October . It is sad we were really hoping that MikeyD would get back to his friends and classmates at Bayshore who will all be graduating 8th grade so he could graduate  with his classmates. MikeyD left Bayshore for summer vacation that June of 6th grade  and never returned. Now it looks like he will not return to Bayshore untill next year and all is classmates will be gone. We are mourning the loss of the son, brother , grandson , nephew , cousin that we had before that tragic night and adjusting to the new MikeyD. It is really hard for all of us to watch his life as he knew it was taken away from him. MikeyD left us and was reborn he was first in a coma then he laid in bed like a baby in a crib couldn’t talk or eat was on a feeding tube and was paralyzed . MikeyD then had to learn how to walk and talk again just like a baby. He is now learning how to write again and struggles with short term memory problems. All this because of the amount of time he was down due to the response time and the lack of an AED.

We know that God  sent MikeyD back to us for a reason. One of them is to save the lives of other children and spare other families from the hardship we have suffered. I promised everyone when MikeyD was getting better my family will pay it forward and set out to help save other children. Right now the MikeyD fund is raising money with the help of Jim Dolan , Mark Peters and The Janet’s Fund to pay for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to come to Middletown and screen all kids for free to the families. Jim Dolan’s son Jimmy and Mark Peters are both Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) survivors who survived with no brain damage due to the response time with an AED. They have become great friends to MikeyD and my family. MikeyD , Jimmy and Mark share a special bond knowing what each has been through. Less than 5% of kids who suffer a SCA survive. Janet did not survive she was the same age as MikeyD when she suffered a SCA running laps at Cheerleading practice. Janet’s dad and mom Jim and Karen are the ones who got Janet’s law passed in New Jersey two weeks to the day after MikeyD went down. Part of Janets law all public and private schools K-12 must have an AED onsite at least 5 school employees to be certified in CPR/AED.

I would like to see a MikeyD law  pass legislation that all teams especially outdoors must have an AED and that all coaches be CPR/AED certified so we can save children’s lives every day and save other families from the unforgettable trauma and tragedy that SCA brings to the families of all these children. We have lost 4 children to SCA arrest in Monmouth county since MikeyD went down. We will be doing the CHOP screening on Saturday April 26^th at the St. Mary’s Mater Dei gym in Middletown for all Kids who can make it from anywhere you do not need to be from Middletown. We need your help in spreading the word to as many families as possible. Please let me know if you can help us if you know any nurses who can take Blood pressures that day it will be great. We also need admin people to check children in as well as  CPR/AED  instructors to do demonstrations.

I hope to have a link on the MikeyD blog next week where people can register their children on line and also a form that you can print and bring to the screening.Please mark your calendars now the screenings will be all day so if you have baseball practice in the morning you can come in the afternoon and vice versa. I ask you to join us in saving as many children’s lives as we  possibly can.

Please pass this link on to as many people as you can and every sports team you know via Email Facebook etc. the more children we screen the better.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILtoyif_FrU 

We Believe in Miracles !!!

Please keep praying and posting for MikeyD !!!

Happy Birthday MikeyD !

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's Defibrillator had no activity on it which is good. MikeyD does have some damage to the left ventricular from the Sudden Cardiac Arrest one of the valves has a slight leak, Dr.Vetter will follow it closely to see if it gets worse. The big scar on his chest is looking better. While we were at CHOP we met Dr. Iyer he is the surgeon who installed the built in defibrillator in MikeyD heart. The last time Dr. Iyer had seen MikeyD he was paralyzed in a wheel chair and could not talk. He had read all the neurological reports that said he would never have the use of his hands or arms. When Dr. Iyer walked in the exam room MikeyD gave him a strong firm handshake you could see the doctors face light up. When we were leaving Dr.Iyer came over to me and said I cannot believe he is using his hands and arms he was truly amazed.

This Wednesday January 15^th was MikeyD’s Birthday.

We thank God every day that he is still here with us.

MikeyD had a great surprise visit for his Birthday.

The whole Middletown High School North Basketball team and coaches came to the house to celebrate MikeyD’s Birthday! They gave him the best present he could ever get.

That meant more to MikeyD and my family than they will ever know. Coach Mark use to coach MikeyD and I could tell by the smile how happy he was to see Coach Mark again. We would like to thank all the players the coaches and the Cerbo family for all that they have done for MikeyD that night. You guys have no idea how happy you made him.

We will be forever grateful.

Then on Saturday MikeyD had another big celebration with Family and friends.

Everyone can wish MikeyD a Happy Birthday right here and we will read them to him.

For those of you that have not seen the video Ciara made for her brother here is the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILtoyif_FrU

Remember We Believe in Miracles !

Please keep praying and posting for MikeyD.

Sunday night December 22nd Merry Christmas to all of you !

 The Christmas Miracle continues. Mighty MikeyD the Miracle in sneakers has come a long way in the past year and he still has a long way to go. This time last year he was getting ready to come home from the Hospital in his new wheelchair. We are sad that he is still in the Children’s Specialized Hospital as an outpatient and not back at Bayshore with his friends, however we know it is the best place for him to be right now at this crucial stage of his recovery. We are Happy and Blessed that he is still with us. We know that MikeyD has been to Heaven and back at his young age he told Moya all about it but that is a story for another day. A friend of ours had taken their daughter to CHOP for some testing when they were there they said to the doctor the reason we came here was because you saved MikeyD. The doctor said oh you know MikeyD and they said yes. The doctor said we did not save MikeyD that was an intervention from a higher power. They said an Angel came down from Heaven and saved MikeyD. We read through the Postings from last Christmas the other night it is some great powerful Christmas reading for all of us. All those posts from all of you last Christmas helped us through this past year. As we look back and reflect over the year that has gone we are thankful for all of you and your prayers and support for our family.  From all the Doherty family to all of you and your families we wish you and yours a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy Healthy New Year !!!

Click the link below to watch a Recovery video that Ciara made for MikeyD

She did a great job. You can see his recovery from the early stages when he was learning how to walk again to the present. Thank you Ciara.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILtoyif_FrU

Keep the faith.. We believe in Miracles !

please keep praying and posting for MikeyD

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you !

Mighty MikeyD the Middletown  Miracle in sneakers has gone from being in a wheelchair with both his legs in casts barely able to speak and hardly able to use his arms  last thanksgiving to  walking around smiling at everyone he meets. Even though MikeyD still has a long way to go we are Thankful to God and all of you that he has come back this far with the help of all your prayers and support. We Cannot thank all of you enough. The MikeyD 3 on 3 was a great event and a great day for MikeyD you can see him with all his classmates in the picture above. MikeyD even handed out the trophies to the winners of the tournament . We could tell he was so happy to be back at Bayshore by the smile on his face  and when we got home that night he asked me dad when will I be going back to Bayshore. I only wish I could of given him an answer . We are hoping and praying that he will be able to return to Bayshore sometime next year. Yesterday some of the Baseball players from Kean University came to the hospital to see mighty MikeyD and they presented him with a team baseball uniform and a real nice Nike wind breaker they made his day.

MikeyD has  saved a few lives already and will continue to do so we are having the CHOP Medical team come to Saint Mary's on April 26th the Mighty MikeyD Heart screening will be free to all children in Middle and High School grades. I wish we could of had it sooner but scheduling was tough and I needed some time for the fund raising to pay for the screening, Please help me spread the word for the screening to all Children not just Middletown but children from any town in the area that can make it are welcome. Dr. Vetter said we do not want people to sign up too early because they forget about it. We will have an on line sign up we will post it on the blog as we get closer. I also need some nurses if you know any Nurse Fran from Bayshore is going to help us and we will also need some Admin Volunteers if you can help us please let me know. I really appreciate it. Thank you all again for everything especially Praying and posting your kind words of support here for MikeyD.

Please remember MikeyD in your prayers on this Thanksgiving As Well.

We wish all of you and your families a Happy, Healthy and Blessed Thanksgiving from all the Doherty’s 

Help Me Thanksgiving Day Prayer

O God, when I have food,
help me to remember the hungry;
When I have work,
help me to remember the jobless;
When I have a home,
help me to remember those who have no home at all;
When I am without pain,
help me to remember those who suffer,
And remembering,
help me to destroy my complacency;
bestir my compassion,
and be concerned enough to help
By word and deed,
those who cry out for what we take for granted.

Amen.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Thursday Night October 24th

Mighty MikeyD the Miracle in Sneakers continues every day to fight the good fight. He never ever gives up.

He fights hard every day to get better. He tries every day to tie his own shoes and even though he can't do it yet he tries again and again day after day. Most people would give up by now not MikeyD. He is a little boy with Big Courage! He struggles everyday with little things from the traumatic brain injury but yet he never complains. he is trying to learn real hard how to read and write again. his long term memory is getting better but his short term memory is a real battle. We were hoping that MikeyD would be returning to Bayshore sometime after Thanksgiving but unfortunately  the hospital said he is not ready to leave anytime soon. MikeyD had a great surprise visit his grandmother Bridie, his Aunt Mauve and cousin Adrienne came from Ireland to pay him a surprise visit he was in Ireland with them just a few days before that night of September 7^th, that was the last time they had seen him it was great for all of us to see them.Then this Sunday after mass was great for MikeyD  Father Carlos came over to him and gave him a big five minute hug he held MikeyD and said you are a true walking miracle my son. It was great for us to see the smile on MikeyD and father Carlos faces. Father Carlos use to call me all the time when we were in CHOP. November 6^th the great people of Bayshore School are having the annual MikeyD 3 ON 3 Basketball Tournament we are all looking forward to that.

It means a lot to everyone in my family. Thank You everyone at Bayhore for remembering MikeyD ! I would also like to let everyone know about a free CPR training offered by Janet Fund that will be held right here in Colts Neck at the Team Life office.

Team Life does CPR and AED training they also sell Cardiac Science portable AED’s which are the best on the market.

Janet was MikeyD’s age when she suffered a Sudden Cardiac arrest while Cheerleading and unfortunately she did not make it.

Janet’s family is offering this from her foundation.

Please pass this along to everyone that you can. The more of us that are trained to save lives the better. I did it believe me it is not hard you will be surprised. It is next Tuesday October 29^th at 6PM

291 Route 34 Colts Neck                     The Janet Fund is proud to offer its first ever free CPR class in Colts Neck.  We have partnered with Team life to bring you this great event and hope that you will take advantage of the opportunity to learn how to save a life.

Space is very limited so please sign up early.  Remember that in order to bring you these free trainings, it is very important that once you sign up, you attend.  When people sign up and fail to attend it takes away a spot from someone else.

Please make sure you can attend before you register.  

To register please click the link. Register Now!

We believe in Miracles !!!

Please keep praying and posting for MikeyD

Sunday September 29th MikeyD's first Birthday !

Mighty MikeyD  now has two Birthday’s September 7th and January 15th . He celebrated his first Birthday of his new life on September 7th. The day in which he was born again. The celebration started Friday night at the healing mass at St. Mary’s where father Jeff prayed over him and spoke about the Miracle of MikeyD who last September 7th he  was in a coma  woke up three weeks later and was paralyzed and could not speak. Everyone said his upper body would be paralyzed for the rest of his life and he would never use his hands or arms again, The parish of St. Mary’s held a hearing mass where everyone gathered to pray for the little boy. The story about little MikeyD spread and before you knew it all the churches in Middletown and many other churches   from Ireland to Hawaii and other parts of the world were all praying for a miracle for this little 12 year old boy !

We believe this was a major part of his healing Matthew 18-19.Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. 20 For where two or more are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

MikeyD is now using his hands and arms a true miracle.

MikeyD has started CCD and will make his Confirmation next May with his cousin Brendan and many other friends thanks to Peggy Dunne.

We then celebrated MikeyD's new Birthday on Saturday with a party with a bunch of family and friends. We had a great wiffle ball game and big party it really made his day. Thank you everyone for coming.

Moya and I had to go to a family meeting last Friday at the Children’s specialized Hospital in Mountainside to meet with the doctors, therapist and teachers. We were very happy and proud to hear the reports first of all how they all love MikeyD and said he is a pleasure to be with every day and how good and kind he is to everyone he meets and that he walks around with a smile on his face. They said he is trying very hard and making progress every day. MikeyD still can’t write or tie his shoes but he is starting to read a little bit. We believe he will keep coming back. The Mighty MikeyD heart screening will be in February I will have an exact date soon and will let everyone know. The Screening will be open to all kids not just kids in Middletown and not just kids on school sports teams a lot of kids play on Rec and travel teams which has nothing to do with school. I am building a team of people who are helping me put this screening together  like Jim Curti from St.Mary’s basketball Peggy Dunne from St.Mary’s CCD, Barbara Cassin,  Jim Dolan from Monmouth Beach his  son Jimmy is also a SCA survivor and Mark Peter’s from Cardiac Science who is also an SCA survivor. Both Jimmy and Mark were very lucky to have a quick response from first responders and have an AED available within a few minutes unlike little MikeyD so they have no Brain Damage. Mark and I had lunch the other day and we were speaking about the miracle of MikeyD I told him the main goal of my family right now is to get little MikeyD better. Mark lost his best friend who was playing basketball like MikeyD to SCA. Mark believes as we do that God sent the Miracle MikeyD back to us so that he can go around when he gets better and save the lives of many other young children. I would like to share Mark’s Story with you here.

Hi! My name is Mark -

I am the AED Specialist with Cardiac Science, covering New Jersey, New York City, and Long Island. I am extremely passionate about my journey - (Notice that I did not say career!) - and I would like to tell you why...

When I was fifteen, I lost my childhood friend - Gregory Moyer - to sudden cardiac arrest.
(Please visit Greg's website: http://www.GregAED.org)

It was halftime of his basketball game when he had his event. There was no AED there and the ambulance did not respond in time. In fact, the average EMS response time is twelve minutes! 

He was one of twelve thousand school-aged children that year who died of sudden cardiac arrest that year. Did you know that every year, cardiac arrest remains the number one killer in the United States? It claims the lives of over 12,000 school-aged children annually!

Believe it or not, my personal experience does not end there.

On February 26th, 2009 - and in my previous life as a personal trainer - I had my own event and went into sudden cardiac arrest in a gym outside of Philadelphia. Thanks to quick action, off-duty paramedics, and defibrillation - I was given a second chance at life.

I've made it my lifelong goal to ensure that there are no more Gregory Moyers.
I want to give people a second chance at life, just as I was granted another shot.

If I can be of any help to you for anything related to defibrillation, or if you have any specific questions about AEDs, Laws in your area, and the Regulations for having a life-saving device - please ask. 

Live for a Passion! ... and Let the Beat Go On!

Mark and Jimmy Dolan  will be with us at the Mighty MikeyD Heart screening you can meet them there.

October is National Sudden Cardiac Awareness Month!

We Believe in Miracles !!!

Please keep praying and posting for MikeyD !!!

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