Outside reading

Outside Reading
Text: Caring bridge for Brett Hansen-Begg
Author: Greta & Alan Hansen-Begg

33 days ago today, August 29th 2008, one of my friends Brett Hansen-Begg was in a horrible car crash. He had many little things go wrong, but the just is that he is in a coma due to brain trauma. In the crash his best friend, Luke, died. Brett has been through a lot this past month. He is getting much better though when he first arrived at Hennepin county medical center (HCMC) he was on a ventilator and hooked up to many tubes and could not really move. Today Brett is no longer on the ventilator, is now on a bouls feeding tube (meaning he is not constantly having a food drip, but gets fed only four times a day… One less tube he has to be connected to) he can now move in reaction to pain and is starting to move in reaction to commands, he is awake during the day (still in a coma) and sleeping during night which the doctors say is an important part of recovery, and so much more. Just yesterday he moved locations Brett is now at Gillette Children's Specialty Hospital in St. Paul which is a rehab hospital. Brett is very busy with all different sorts of physical therapy here every day, but Sundays. Brett also gets to wear real clothes not gowns at Gillette. Even though Brett is still in a coma he has come so far and making improvements everyday and we hope he keeps having improvements until he’s back to his old self!

Codi and Hallie

Hallie and Codi

Codi vs. Hallie

Codi and Hallie are two very close sisters. They are so much alike, yet at the same time so different. They are the same in a few ways. Such as they both have very big hearts. We know this because they both feel very sad when they find out about the girls that died in the helicopter shooting, but neither of them even knew the girls. Another way they are alike is they both are smart girls Codi went trough medical school and almost finished her residency. The girls are also very different. One way is Hallie knows what she wants in life and is adventures and Codi is not sure what she wants in life we know this because she is always traveling around and doesn’t stay in one place for long and now is living in Grace, but knows she wants to leave at the end of the year. Another way is Codi has trouble remembering the past for example she doesn’t remember saving the wolf pups in the flood, but on the other had Hallie has a vivid memory of doing that and of her childhood. The last way these two sister are different is Hallie is very comfortable with her self and is well liked with the boys and Codi is not most boys would pick Codi when they couldn’t get Hallie and Codi feels like people only remember her as being Hallie’s sister. That is a few ways these emotionally close but physically far sisters are alike and different.

Tall Cool One

A book that I read recently was Tall Cool One by Zoey Dean. I really enjoyed this book. It was about Teenagers living in Beverly Hills. Two of the girls go to a resort in Mexico to get away from drama and boys. Both of the girls end up finding a boy there and blew them off to go into town. Well in town the main characters, Anna and Sam, drink too much and eat a bug used for getting high. They end up getting lost in the desert with no phones and a bad storm comes in and they end up getting arrested for trespassing trying to get away from the storm, but their fathers come to the rescue. Which leads to one of the many themes, always think before you act so you don’t end up in a position like these girls. This was a very good book and I thought Zoey Dean got her point across very well.