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 18 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. 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 thinking. 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 also enjoys remote control trucks, boats and flying bugs.

 We would like to thank all the visitors to our websight. On Lindsay's 18th birthday we had our 10,000 visitor, so that was actually pretty cool, thx again.

 We are very sorry for not updating our websight with the new creations.
It has been a very busy year, and our website creator has been busy as well. We hope to add alot more creations or things you can do with a disabled person by the end of 2009. The things we create or put on our website are either cheap to make, easy to do, for entertainment, or comfortability. Our daughter is very limited to what she is able to do, so some of the things we create or ideas we give are not for everybody.
 
 We are having our 1st ANNUAL DISABLED RECREATIONS.COM  fishing tournament. It will be held Sept. 19, 2009 at Pack Memorial Park in Moundridge Ks. It will be for all ages of people that are confined to wheelchairs. We will be having flyers in businesses in the county. I will be going around to all the businesses in McPherson Co. to raise money and collect items we will be needing. Trophy's will be awarded. Depending on the amount of money raised, we will determine the amount of places and size of trophy's awarded. We are also going to put money and items aside for other events we are going to be putting on. This tournament is wheelchair dependent only, but we are planning to have other tournaments for just disabled people, wheelchair or not. There is nothing better than competition, excitement from start to finish. Win or Lose, it will be an experience you never forget, we promise. This is exactly what the Dr. ordered.  

 Lindsay had a GREAT 18th birthday party. We rented a cabin at a lake near here, Maxwell Game Preserve, for a couple days. She had some friends from school out. I think they had as much fun as she did. We had a cookout, along with cake and ice cream. After opening some gifts, the kids played with Lindsay's remote control truck. Nobody could quit laughing, people had to move out of the way very quick, some had to actually dance to avoid getting ran into. The truck bounced off of several of our guests vehicles, no damage was done. By the time Aaron got to play with the truck, it had just 3 wheels left on it, and the drive train had weeds wrapped around every movin part, but it was still driveable believe it or not. Hopefully Sami could walk the next day, she took one on the shin.

Then we went down to the lake and fished, also had a campfire.  Ryan, I think enjoyed pushing Lindsay's switch that reels her fishing pole in more than trying to catch fish. I think Sami was the only one that caught anything. They weren't biting a whole lot by the time we started fishing. It was just nice and fun meeting everybody and watching the kids do the things that Lindsay gets to do throughout the year. We plan on getting together more with everybody that came to Lindsay's party.                               

 We have had a pretty good summer so far in 2009. We have caught some nice fish, Lindsay has caught the most as usual. Lindsay's dad has caught the biggest so far, a 19.7LB channel cat out at Grandpa Whites farm ponds north of Canton. Recently Lindsay caught 2 fish at one time with her electric fishing poles. We got her another electric fishing pole for her birthday, one for bass fishing, the other for channel cats or whatever is biting. She can reel one pole in at a time or both at the same time by hitting her switch. It was pretty funny when it happened. I call it cheating, she calls it master angling.

We have gone camping just twice, the weather hasn't been cooperating, it's still early. She likes to just go out to the lake and have a campfire and fish a little, but she likes listening and meeting people most of all. 

She loves playing with her remote control truck. she is getting ready to finish painting her new plastic truck body, a 1980 chevy. She just loves painting actually, its very relaxing for her and seeing the finished product is the biggest thrill.

She likes flying kites as well, we go out to the ponds to do this also. There is lots of room to fly without getting caught up in trees or highline wires, but we have fished it out of the pond a few times. We get the kite up with kite string, we then tie the kite string onto her fishing line. The kite will take the line out about 200/300 yards at least, then she just hits her switch and she can reel the kite in when she is done flying. If the kite decides to start coming down on its own, she just hits the switch and gets it back up. It sure is alot easier reeling her kite in with her fishing pole, then winding the string up on the handle that comes with the kite.

She has a remote control boat also, which belonged to her big brother at one time. We haven't caught any fish with it yet, but we will, I promise you that. You can troll with a lure behind it or use it as a bobber. Just tie a hook on a string behind it with a live worm and drive it where you want and let it float like a bobber.

She also got a remote control flying bug from big brother for her birthday. We haven't mastered the controller for her to use herself yet. I hope to soon. It is actually a pretty cool little flying machine, it flies for 5/10 minutes before it needs charged again, but it doesn't take long to charge. It can just hover and move around in a small area if you want it too. It can also fly outta control, but it doesn't hurt when it hits you, very soft and light weight. You can also chase the dogs around with it, that is pretty fun.

Lindsay's big brother Quinton and dad went striper fishing June 24 at Wilson Lake. They had been a couple other times in the years past, but the weather sucked and sucked bad, along with the fishing. $1000.00 later, they caught some nice fish. It was Quinton's birthday present for 2009, so far. It was a great time.
 
 We would like for people to use our websight to post or present their ideas or creations for handicapp or disabled people. Leave a message if you have pictures and information about your items. We can post your name with the items if you want us too. Everybody needs to work together on making life more interesting, fun, or just being comfortable for the disabled, Thx.