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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Labor Day Updated for screening

It is hard to believe this time last year Mighty MikeyD was a Happy healthy 12 year old boy. We had just came back from our vacation in Ireland. For Moya Julia, Ciara, MikeyD and myself our lives could not have been better. Little did we know a few days later our lives would change forever. None of us will ever be the same. MikeyD was looking forward to returning to Bayshore as a 7th grader and starting back to sports as usual. He left as a 6^th grader and has never returned.  We had just picked up his fall baseball uniform and basketball practice had just started up again. He was back from vacation doing all the things he loved to do play sports with his friends. We still cannot believe we are only a few days away from that very hot humid tragic  Friday night of September 7th one year ago when little MikeyD went down on the basketball court. The Miracle in sneakers has come a long way since that night. We believe it was from all the prayers and support from all of you our family, friends, prayer warriors and the great Middletown community. Thank God Julia and Ciara are his guardian Angels they are so good to him.

 MikeyD   still has long way to go and  needs all the prayers and support he can get. Next Friday night September 6th at 8 PM we will be taking MikeyD to the healing mass at St. Mary’s where so many of you prayed for MikeyD last year which we know  healed a little boy who was paralyzed and could not talk for months. I hope you can join us at the mass on Friday night. None of us will ever know why MikeyD had to go through this, but  everyone around him knows that the Lord has a reason that will be revealed to us one day. Also I was speaking to Dr.Vetter regarding the MikeyD screening that we will be bringing to Middletown to screen all the kids we can screen for heart and dehydration problems. She told me to see if we had any nurses or technicians that can help us. This will keep the cost down for the funds we need to raise. If any of you know a nurse or a technician who would be willing to volunteer their time at the screening please let me know. On Saturday  afternoon September 7th which will be the one year anniversary from that tragic night we are planning a wiffle ball game for MikeyD since he can no longer play team sports which he misses it makes him feel good to have some friends around and play a little game we had a few games before and it was great. we played parents against the kids one day and that was great. I wish I had more time we could of had a little tournament. We are hoping we can have a few games on Saturday please let us know if you can join us to help MikeyD the more the better. The Doherty family would like to thank each and every one of you for all your prayers and support ! We could  never  made it this far without all of you. A great community that we are proud to be a part of. The green ribbons are still standing strong in our neighborhood they have survived the worst hurricane we have ever seen just another symbol. Dear God please let MikeyD keep coming back to us.

***Mary had a few good questions***

the Screening will be sometime in January or February as soon I have the exact date I will let everyone know ASAP.

The nurses will just need to do the Blood pressure.

The Techs we need are ECG and Echocardiogram techs.

If not CHOP will provide.

The wiffle ball game for MikeyD recovery Celebration will be Saturday at our house 3 pm we will make MAC n Cheese for the kids with hot dogs on the grill.

Hope to see you then.

We believe in Miracles !!!

Please keep praying and posting for MikeyD !!!