Over coming a struggle

On September second 2008 brett hansen begg was in a very bad car crash and he was was given horrible brain injures and was at HSMS and gellet children's hospital and now has returned home, but still cant walk with out help, he can say a few words, and struggles with things we take for granted. In the car crash his best friend luke was killed and this was the second death they have had in their small town of watertown in a month. The car crash happened at around 12:08 at night and was a one car crash. The first 72 hours was the worst for the family because Brett was up and down and no one knew if he would make it and if he did make it doctors said it would be likely he would remember nothing from before and may even be a vegetable for the rest of his life. Well brett proved doctors wrong and is now at home. He can text, walk with help of his mother, chat on facebook, talk even though it is hard for people to understand, and he is going to school for half day. It is truly hard for people to overcome struggles.

natural disasters

There are all sorts of natural disasters one of which being when a Tsunami hit beaches around the Indian ocean. People compared it to WWII and to 9/11. The man in this article was saying how nothing and no one can explain what happened not even the servers him being a survivor of two. When people watch a TV broadcast of it they are given a fraction of the pain that really happened. And not only did it affect the ones who were in it, but it touched everyone and it took weeks or months to figures out the death counts. People say that it will take a life time to recover from what all happened though and nothing will ever be back to "normal". He said that the horror made his body go numb and when he heard the first news all he could think is please lord not again. He was pondered by the question of why? why is God so mad? They would say that humans know and understand very little of why things happen. Disasters truly affect everyone. 

Outside Reading

Text: Caringbridge 

Author: Greta Hansen-begg 

Brett got a new wheelchair that is alot easier to function for greta. Brett has a camera in his room so Greta can see his everymove well he is sleeping. Brett walked a few times sense he has been home from the help of greta to look out the window and see people walking by. Brett went out to lunch with some family friends and also tried very hard to talk and he said his sisters name for the first time in 4 months. Brett is also trying to help with his cares aswell and he can now change the radio station on his own and has improved so much since 4 months ago when it was a big deal for brett to move his thumb or blink an eye. 

Outside Reading

Text: caringbridge 

Author:Greta Hansen-Begg

Brett has had a hard last few months. On Freida he finished up his last day at the hospital. He did all his therapies like it was a normal day. But at the end of the day, instead of going back to his hospital room he get in the car and his greta drove him back to his home in watertown to stay, for good! In his last few days at the hospital someone brought all the children in bretts wing a new ipod! Brett has been home a few times since the crash just so Greta and alen had a taste for what they were in for but he is home safe and sound now. 

Outside Reading

Text: Caring bridge

Author: Greta hansen-begg 

Brett had improved so much. He is typing full conversations on his link(a key board that he types on) and he is starting to move his right arm more and more! Brett is so much more independent and had his feeding tube removed recently. All though they have not used the tube in a very long time they needed to wait to take it out to make sure that he didnt get an infection. Brett has a very good long term memory and remembers most everything from before the crash(when we went to visit him a few days ago he knew who we were right away), But he is still having a hard time remembering what he had done that day so his short term memory is not very good. 

Out Side Reading

Text: Caringbridge

Author: Greta hansenbegg 

Brett Got to leave the hospital for his first time since the accident for thanksgiving!! He was also on fox news the other night and he loves to watch it over and over again and is so proud of him self! 



Brett has also been feeling sad and not being able to see the good in the days. When asked how his day was he will start to say oh not very good and then someone will stop him and list off all the great things that happened that day for example they found out he doesnt need a lift anymore to get in and out of the bathtub, his grandparents came to see him, he god a shake from DQ, got to watch a video that his friends recorded on his facebook wall, and got to text his friends through his mom. After he was reminded of all this Brett realized that he did have a good day after all. which leads me to Brett has become very good at using his electronic typer and now he will tell his mom what he wants her to say and she will text it to his friends for him soon he will be able to text it all on his own! Brett isnt always seeing the good but he is improving SO SO SO much!

Out Side Reading

I read many letters from TEC that my family and friends had sent me. Although one stood out the most and it was from my older brother andy. My brother Andy and I are very close and I enjoyed his letter. TEC is one big surprice and Andys letter was about how I said that I would never go to TEC because i would get so frustrated when he wouldnt tell me what you did. It also talked about things he had been doing because I dont get to see him very often. The just of most my letters were people saying fun things they remember about me or sharing things about them selves. I also read many bible verses about unconditional love and agape.