hope

Reading Brett Hansensbeggs latest caring bridge i saw so much hope. Greta is hopeful brett will go far in life. She hopes that one day he will be able to play football again, date girls, and hang out with his friends on his own! After Bretts accident doctors doubted he would ever be able to think for him self. He has already proved them wrong. His mind is fully functioning he can type and text and he is starting to be able to talk even though alot of it is hard to understand. If you walk into this families home you see much hope and all smiles. They never give off negative comments and they are always looking on the bright side! This family is truly filled with hope! 

gender roles

Woman are becoming more important in earning income for their families. In dual-income families the amount of money the women bring in rose to 44% in 2008 apposed to what it used to be at 26%. With this though mothers and fathers are now saying that their family to work conflicts have increased as well. On the other hand this is giving fathers more time to spend with their children and wives so the mothers arnt the main care givers. Also 10% of woman are making more then their husbands. Now both 60% of men and woman are agreeing that they think both should contribute to their income. Surveys are saying that now woman that are of the age of 29 or younger will support their family and contribute equaling to their family. This is all a much bigger change compared to what it used to be. 

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.