My name is Kolette Hall. I am a teacher by degree, an avid reader by choice, and a licensed designer by accident. I am also a daughter, sister, wife, aunt and after 17 years, mother – hopefully with the lines blurred between all of those and my role of friend.
My husband, Jason is a quadriplegic. He broke his neck when he was 15 years old at the C5-C6 vertebrae. After we met in college at Brigham Young University, we married in 1992. Five years later he was in a life-threatening car accident which left him in the hospital for 13 months and then a series of hospital stays and about 20 surgeries over the next six years.
But in spite of our circumstances, I have found that life can be good; that I have the choice – to choose how I feel about my life and my situation. I get to choose my joy. In spite of the adversity and hardship that comes from being the caregiver of someone dealing with intense health issues, I have decided that I wouldn’t go back and change the challenge of dealing with Jason’s car accident.
I am a different person now than I was then. I am stronger and more independent. I am more tolerant, more understanding and slower to judge. I am better than I was before and I do not want to change the person I have become because of our challenges.
So, I will instead share my thoughts and feelings about life here. Maybe you can learn a little something or see a different perspective or gain a little hope from my thoughts. Because one thing is for sure, there is always hope.
Come back soon!
