Sunday Memorial Day Weekend

Mighty MikeyD the Middletown Miracle continues to fight the good fight every day to win the battle!

MikeyD has been helping me coach Ciara's St.Catherine’s Basketball team. I told him he could call all the plays at the last game he stood on the side and said Dad I have to call time out they are not boxing out to get the rebounds. He called time out and asked the girls do you know how to box out ? He then started showing them and explained to them that you need to box out. He then said Dad I do not want to call another time out now but in the next half I am going to have them play zone instead of man to man I am going to put them in a one, three, one zone. He even started to sound like Mugsy.  (Mugsy was his coach for a few years) During the game I could tell it was really stimulating him he started talking faster and clearer for that one hour. it was almost as if he never had a TBI. On the way home he started talking slow like before the game. I am hoping that we can get him more involved in helping out in coaching basketball it really may help him in his recovery. he really loved playing basketball. Mighty MikeyD also received a great package from the Harlem Globtrotters Basketball team. It had a basketball signed by the whole team, wrist bands, cups and a team calendar. I am not sure who had it sent to him but thank you very much you should of seen his smile. MikeyD loves to see people that he knew before that tragic night you can tell by his face like when Chris Price and his mom Regina came to see MikeyD at Ciara’s basketball game that night. When he shook Chris’s hand  and he hugged Regina you just see this glow it is hard to explain but his eyes lit up and it makes him really happy. He does not say much but you can tell. You have to see the glow for yourself. If you can come see MikeyD please do anytime you can it is very much appreciated. We will be having an AWG (Attitude with Gratitude)get together tomorrow at The  Hills House , 20 Garryford Drive   Middletown, NJ 07748(off Stavola)

 if you can come see MikeyD that would be great. We will be honoring are fallen heroes and having a game of capture the flag.

We may even get a wiffle ball game going on the side.

We believe in Miracles !!!

Please Keep Praying and Posting for MikeyD.

Happy Mother's Day !

We had another Wiffle ball game last week. This time it was an away game at the Hill's house it was great. We had the Middletown Miracle pitching on the mound. A lot of people showed up  and he pitched really well as you can see him in action in the picture. We all had a lot of fun and are looking forward to our next game. We played the national Anthem before the game and we all knelt down and said a prayer giving thanks for our Miracle during the 7^th inning stretch.  We took off this weekend in honor of Mother's day. We will be having a game over Memorial day weekend if you can make it that will be great details will follow. MikeyD is starting to get flash backs now from all the time he spent in the hospital, Last night MikeyD was talking to our neighbor Cookie and she was asking him a lot of questions. She started asking him about when he was in the hospital and she came to visit him. Mighty MikeyD said to her you know I am still sick don't you ? She said yes I do he then said to her do you know I am fighting real  hard every day to get better. It is truly amazing that he is telling people that he is still sick and fighting the fight every day. We see him fighting and struggling every day with little things that we take for granted and yet he never complains. Mighty MikeyD says I can do it, let me do it and I want to do it on my own !!!  We will keep posting for Mighty MikeyD . We never knew how many people were inspired by this little 12 year old boy. This blog was started by MikeyD sisters Julia, Ciara , my brother Seamus and niece Bridget that tragic weekend in the Children’s hospital of Philadelphia when I could hardly talk or think straight never mind write. The blog was started just to keep our very large family informed most of which are in Ireland so we would not have to be on the phone. It was never started to be shared with so many people or to inspire anyone. We never thought anyone beside our immediate family would be on the blog. When they left that weekend they showed me how to log in and asked me to post an update on how he was doing. We were told it would be a miracle if he lived until Tuesday. As the administrator when you log in to do a new post you get a report of how many people went to the site to read the updates I could not believe it when I read the report we were getting 2,000.00 hits a day before you knew it we were getting over 3,000.00 hits a day for a little boy on a blog that was set up for the family. I received a lot of phone calls, emails and text since I posted the last time on Thursday night from people asking me to please not stop posting. I heard stories of people with cancer, that were sick, old and tired, people that had given up, who were inspired by the little boy who was doing things that they said he would never do again.

Some of the people with cancer are cancer free and the others who had given up are doing better, fighting and doing things they could not do before reading about little MikeyD. I know he did not heal any of them personally but I do know that he inspired them with his positive I can attitude and his untouchable fighting spirit. I believe if you think you can do it you will do it and if you think you can’t do it you won’t. Attitude means a lot more than Aptitude. I am so happy that something good has come from this little boys pain and suffering. Then we had people like Diane Hansen posting  He and your entire family are a source of inspiration for all of us. Your faith touches all of us & God’s miracles with MikeyD put us in awe. We are never bored with your blog and hope that you will continue to do it. It’s a joy to read about MikeyD just as it was heart wrenching to read in the beginning of this event.

We also had Karen who we never met posting

Hi Doherty Family. We have never met. I read about Mikey D in the newspaper and I heard prayers being asked for him in our church. (He is still on our congregation prayer list, Westminster Presbyterian in Middletown) I have been reading your blog since you started it. His story and miraculous recovery, and your blogging it, is incredible. I look forward to your posts about the recovery Mikey is making. I assure you, I am not the slightest bit bored. You have touched many lives. Lives you don't even know exist, but who you reach through your blog about Mikey. It feels good to read about him doing so well, he is defying all odds, and is living proof of a higher power. MikeyD's story is inspirational.
Wishing you all well on the journey you are on.
Karen

I hope we get to meet Karen in person someday.

People like all of you posting really helps my family in this tough time,

Thank you for all your prayers and support.

Happy Mother’s day to all of you !

We Believe in Miracles !

Please keep praying and posting for Mighty MikeyD !

Thursday Night *

We had our first wiffleball tournament and it was a great time for all. A lot of kids showed up with their parents when I said we will choose sides someone said let's play the parents against the kids. that was a bad idea the kids crushed us. MikeyD was on the mound for the kids team and he had no mercy for anyone not even his Prayer warrior Peggy Dunne when he pitched to her there was no mercy and when she ran the bases he tagged her out. I do not think he really knows how much she did for him. We are planning on having more games this was really great for the MikeyD we had snacks for everyone then Moya ordered Pizza for all of us we came in and had Pizza and the first one that said lets go play when we were done was MikeyD it is truly amazing the energy and spirit he has after all the pain and suffering he has just been through. After being in a coma and then being paralyzed and laying around in a hospital bed for months from there he went to going around in a wheelchair and now he was the first one up and throwing the ball again. He is for sure the Middletown Miracle. This Tuesday April 30^th was Moya’s birthday MikeyD said do not worry Mom I think you look good for your age we all started laughing he was so sincere. Tonight when he came home from the Children’s Hospital he said mom where is my backpack ? She said I don’t know where did you leave it. He went and got his backpack and pulled out a present he said Mom this is a present from me that I made at the hospital for you for your birthday and mother’s day. It was wrapped very nice Moya said MikeyD did you wrap this for me ? he said no mom I could never wrap  like this Miss Carol wrapped it for me but I did help make it. I hope you like it. He made her a pot holder he then said Mom I hope it is not too small. Moya said MikeyD nothing you could ever give  me could be too small. He was so happy to give his mom this gift I wish you could of seen the smile on his face. MikeyD has started playing the lottery he picked some numbers and every week Uncle Larry brings him his tickets. He told me the other day Dad if I win the lottery the first thing I am going to do is pay off all my medical bills, the second thing I am going to do is donate a lot of money to CHOP and the Children’s hospital and then I am going to buy a big yacht for all my friends. After I heard that I said he is coming back to us. We need to bring him back to us from the Children’s Hospital in Mountainside to Middletown as soon as we can. I can’t imagine how he feels every day being away from all his friends in Bayshore. The doctor at CHOP who said the best thing for MikeyD right now is familiarity was right. I see it every time one of his old friends show up to visit him. If you can come visit MikeyD please do I know a lot of us are busy but it really does help him. I am not sure how much longer I will keep posting for MikeyD  I do not want to bore anyone now that he is getting better. No one knows how much further he will come back or if he will get any better. I do not want his old friends to forget him and hope that they come see him. Maybe we can get another wiffle ball game put together real soon. I would like to thank all of you for your prayers and support. I ask all of you to please keep in touch and come see the Middletown Miracle when you can.

"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again." 

We believe in Miracles !!!

Please keep praying and posting for MikeyD !