Thank you La Manzanilla

Posted by Baseball Patti on November 16, 2013, 12:08 pm
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To all the people who have given me support,love and kindness in this most difficult time of my life, I would like to express my heartfelt, sincere THANK YOU!! There are so many of you that I have not had the pleasure to meet yet, and yet you all have added me to your prayers and thoughts, and sent me much comfort. You have no idea how much strength you have given me. This town is unlike any other, people here actually do care about their neighbours and friends and the help and generousity extended is unbelievable. You are not a just a "resident" of La Manz--you become family! This is HOME! For those of you who did not get to know Mickey, I would like to tell you a little about him. He was a private kind of guy,not one to go out on the town often. He preferred the intimacy of having friends over. Loved a good game of Euchre or Scrabble. He was also very careful in who he extended his friendship to. But, if you were his friend,it was for life and there was absolutely nothing he would not do for you. He totally supported La Manz. Beisbol!!and when he did feel up to attending a game, you would see him playing catch with the younger brothers and sisters of the players on the side lines. When he went to sit down to actually watch the game, he had trouble walking back to his chair as there was always at least one child clinging to his legs. On the days that I didn't really feel like going, he would growl these words at me--Get off your ass woman, you promised these kids!and when I came home, tired, but happy and bubbling with the news, he would sit there with a very "told you so" grin on his face. He always was concerned about the people of La Manzanilla and what he could do to help them. Even during his illness, he put other people first. Mickey was the "foreign resident" who filled the oxygen tank at the Clinic. He knew of at least one child in our town that had asthma, and he said it was not right that oxygen was not available to the people here. Not every family could afford a cab to Melaque or Chihuatlan Hospital to get their child oxygen when needed, and waiting for a bus could be too late. He even kept his sense of humour as ill as he was, because when Dr. Itzel came to the house for his check up, he gave her the money, and then teased her by telling her--"This is for oxygen, not Krispy Kremes" He would go "tree hunting" and cut up the wood for firewood for the families in this town who could not afford propane to cook with. He boxed up and delivered over 150 boxes of wood, and this would have continued had he not become ill. He did these things quietly, privately and with a happy heart. The pain of losing him is almost unbearable, but I know in my heart that when his soul entered heaven on Friday morning, that God took him in his arms and said "Well done, my son" Thank you again everyone from the bottom of my heart. Patti

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