We are the Hett’s, Lindsay, Quinton, Terri and Darrin. We would like to share our story and our creations (listed below this introduction) with people that have disabilities or may be growing old and can’t do the things they used to do.
We are sharing our story so you can get to know us and understand why we are wanting to help others enjoy life a little more. We hope we can help.
Our daughter Lindsay, who is now 19 years old, had a virus when she was 2 ½ years old that left her with extensive brain damage. She went from a happy, carefree little girl one morning, to a little girl fighting for her life, in a coma, that night. She became extremely dehydrated and the dehydration led to lack of oxygen to her brain. We took her to a nearby family doctor two days before, but the virus was undetected at that time. She now has cerebral palsy, epilepsy, cannot talk, has cortical vision impairment, scoliosis for which she has spinal rods implanted, a baclofen pump for muscle spasms, a feeding tube, and cannot use any of her limbs, except for her right arm, with some limited control.
We communicate with her by asking questions and she answers “Yes” by closing her eyes and turning her head. If she doesn’t answer us and just looks at us with a frustrated, mad, or sad face, we take that as a “No”. We try to ask the same question both ways, for example, “Do you want to go fishing?” or “Do you not want to go fishing?” She understands everything we talk about, but she just can’t talk back to us, so it gets a little frustrating for her sometimes. We have to try to put ourselves in her place and try to think what she might be needing, wanting or thinking. We try to cover all possibilities. We have learned to read her way of thinking throughout the years, it hasn’t been easy, but has gotten much better.
Lindsay’s pastimes include watching TV, eating, playing computer games, playstation games and casino games, playing fantasy football, fantasy fishing and fantasy racing, listening to music, camping and fishing during the summer. She watches and reads about the Dallas Cowboys as much as she can, we hope to go to the new stadium this year during the regular season and to the Superbowl. She enjoys remote control trucks, boats and flying bugs..
We will try to finish uploading and posting our past and present idea’s and creations ASAP. Our website is our hobby, but we are busy doing a lot of different things this summer, so please be patient. We hope to add much more soon, again we want to thank everybody for their e-mails that find our website helpful to them.
Go to the GALLERY on the TOP RIGHT corner of this web page to check out all the pictures we have posted so far. We will continue to add more. We hope to have our website completed by the end of this year. We have a lot more to add, so keep coming back.
Check out some of Lindsay’s pictures from her fishing trips!
We are starting to receive sponsorships for our 2nd Annual Wheelchair Fishing Tournament . The list of sponsors is located on the Tournament page.