Weekly Essential

Monday, February 8, 2016

Staying Positive

Patrick working with his horse.
I was hoping to have everything up to date and to be more current on this blog, however it has been a challenging year so I thought I would pick up from where we are now and compare to where we were a year ago, since I didn't write as much as I anticipated last year.

A year ago at this time, Patrick had therapy three times a day. He struggled with so much, it was hard on all of us. He still struggles and he gets frustrated.

I can't believe it has been over a year! It went by so fast and it seems like a daze and now we live our life differently and have accepted that things are different. We can't go back and change what happened. We stay positive and know that something good will come of all of this.

As good as we are doing, it is hard, really hard. There is not a day that goes by where someone has an emotional day in the household. We are so grateful for essential oils, such an amazing tool that we use for emotional and physical health! It is good we have these emotional days. It is part of the healing and we have become more grateful and positive because of it, so that is good.

Patrick doing physical therapy
As the new year begins we are grateful for how far Patrick has come in his healing, as frustrated and impatient as we are, we know we are extremely blessed for how far he has come.

Even though we do not have to go to see a therapist anymore for therapy, he still has physical, occupational and speech therapy every day. There are days where we take breaks, but I have noticed if we take too long of a break, it does effect him.

Patrick has decided that he is no longer going to take naps. Well after about a month, the kids and I noticed that he still really needs a nap. So we compromised with him, he does not need to nap everyday and he does not need to nap for an hour. But there are times where he needs to nap.

He looks great and physically he is great. He was able to ski for the first time since the accident and he did great. I asked him if it was weird that he knew how to ski but he didn't remember skiing? He replied that it was easy. Every time the kids and I get frustrated, we stop and think about how frustrated Patrick must be. He has such a great attitude. He does have down days, but he has a lot of good cheer leaders.

I guess depression and head aches play a huge part in brain injuries, Patrick's doctor is impressed he has not had either.


Last year at this time he didn't know the kids names, my name, he got the animals confused, he didn't know what day, month or year it is. Today he knows what day it is, what month it is and what year it is. He knows are names and who we are and the animals. He is still learning new things every day.

I can't believe how much snow we have this year! We were blessed last year with very little which was great for us since the snowblower didn't work. That was one thing I made sure of this year is to have it ready to go, and boy am I happy about that.

Plus Patrick is able to use it and he loves being able to do stuff around the house. He is great helping me with chores, he does great when I give him a list of things to do. He has a really good routine, which is helpful.


Patrick is so positive and we have learned that staying positive is huge! When ever one of us gets down, there is always the rest of us to bring them back up. We are team Chambers and we stay positive and we know that we are all going through this together, how important it is to stay positive.

We are grateful that we get to spend more time together, that he is alive, that he is healing. The kids love that he is around all the time,  he is amazing and we love him so much.



Kollette and Patrick




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