tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20510037454211386782024-03-19T05:00:28.568-07:00Patrick's PointMusings from a dude who thrives with Down syndromeStacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00679058887478557342noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051003745421138678.post-75877037964119443432012-07-22T22:34:00.000-07:002012-07-22T22:34:01.144-07:00PUSH America, Journey of Hope - June 5th, 2012This event happened a while ago, but better late than never... <br />
When most people think of fraternities, they think "Animal House" and a bunch of young guys getting into shenanigans. Most people don't think of the great charitable works that a lot of these guys do. Being at ARC of Amador for several years, every year we all look forward to the <a href="http://www.pikapp.org/">Pi Kappa Phi</a> fraternity returning for a stop in to say "hi" on their cross country cycling trip that raises money for <a href="http://pushamerica.org/pushcontent.aspx?id=351">PUSH America, Journey of Hope</a>. The North Team guys stopped in on June 5th and we treated them to a lunch and a bunch of smiles. And, of course, I made them pose for a BUNCH of pictures. <br />
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<br />Three cycling teams of 35 Pi Kappa Phi members start out at three different locations on the west coast; Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. All three teams ride across country and meet in Washington, D.C. They raise over half a million dollars annually for funds and awareness people with disabilities. They're a GREAT bunch of guys, and I hope you get a chance to check them out and of course, enjoy my photos.<br />
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Thanks again, guys! We'll see you again next year!Stacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00679058887478557342noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051003745421138678.post-20877464686599160012012-07-01T09:31:00.004-07:002012-07-01T09:31:56.264-07:00Volcano Cannonball Run Car Show - June 30, 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The winner of "Pat's Pick" award. This award is better than winning "Best of Show" :)<br />1934 Ford Sedan. I like sedans...they protect my bald head, unlike those convertibles</td></tr>
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But, March is important to those of us with Down syndrome because the 7th is dedicated to ending the "r" word. To me, my family, and my friends it is a completely hurtful word. It infers that those of us with daily challenges are less than human. It infers that we are different, and therefore less. I am none of those things. Even if it's being said as a joke to someone who is considered "normal" it carries the same hurt. It is a sad and stupid word used only by sad and uneducated people. So, join the pledge to stop using it by clicking on the link to the right. To be clear, I am special. I am loved. I am a photographer. I'm a dog owner. I have even gone to college. The "r" word should change to be "respect". Word.<br />
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The other important day in March is the 21st. Get it? March 21st is 3/21 - or trisomy 21! (<a href="http://www.worlddownsyndromeday.org/">http://www.worlddownsyndromeday.org/</a> ). As the signs say, "I rock my 21st chromosome". And I do! I make the most of my 21st chromosome. I think my parents are still surprised at the places I go and how many people say "Hey Patrick"! I am popular. It must be my good looks.<br />
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Anyhow, that's why March is important. Show your support. Just sayin'.Stacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00679058887478557342noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051003745421138678.post-65968239622916018982011-12-22T19:54:00.000-08:002011-12-23T00:52:44.116-08:00Merry Christmas!Every year Arc of Amador has a wonderful luncheon during the holidays. Our family and friends are invited to come and join us to enjoy lunch and delicious desserts. To cap off the event we have our annual musical performance. Last year was the "Twelve Days of Christmas". It was hilarious. <br />
This year, I had the chance to participate (there are a lot of us so we can't all put on our performance hats). We performed one of my favorite Christmas songs "Mele Kalikimaka". I love all things Hawaiian. My friend Chris and I had the lead roles of playing the rattlers. Chris' favorite thing is Elvis and he added some Elvis flare to the performance. See the bottom of this post for the super awesome video. We had a LOT of fun and we had everyone rolling with laughter.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Well, Mom and Dad really wanted me to stay and live with them, so I decided to make them happy. So, that's what I was doing 22 years ago today.</div>Stacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00679058887478557342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051003745421138678.post-53002102308115995222011-07-09T22:32:00.000-07:002011-07-10T09:14:40.607-07:00Cannonball Run Car Show and Independence Day Parade - July 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Being the hot rod fans our family is, my parents and their friends started an annual car show about 19 years ago. The Cannonball Run Car Show is always around the 4th of July and it's a blast. It's even been recognized as one of the best small town car shows in a national hot rod magazine. This was a stellar year seeing old friends and making new ones, having the Fresno Pandraggers back and having new cars to look at...it couldn't have been more fun.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQRA2DP0jfyCZ_YNouwFKgfxpMSfi_nmQLaNxeawy-hQRF7COJmAtLHgun9G4UEGEiTbVP-Fe2fnMum3VzBsuocPwGwKXeIM1fkJgNfY3xmVM5xY-Q-sSkOp7YJGvoaNtiUk7EbKtUWeA/s1600/100_7326.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQRA2DP0jfyCZ_YNouwFKgfxpMSfi_nmQLaNxeawy-hQRF7COJmAtLHgun9G4UEGEiTbVP-Fe2fnMum3VzBsuocPwGwKXeIM1fkJgNfY3xmVM5xY-Q-sSkOp7YJGvoaNtiUk7EbKtUWeA/s320/100_7326.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">The car show also coincides with the town's Independence Day Parade. Our town is so small that the parade actually makes two trips around the town to make it last a bit longer. This year was so exciting because I was the Grand Marshal of the parade! Dad drove me and our friend Toby in the hot rod. I really had such a great time!</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>Stacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00679058887478557342noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051003745421138678.post-69643992867918654192011-06-30T15:50:00.000-07:002011-06-30T15:50:22.825-07:00Push America 2011<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Push America is an awesome organization. Out of Push came the Journey of Hope which is an annual fundraising event which men from universities all over the country cycle across the nation to raise money and awareness for people with disabilities. These guys are all members of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. During the summer they travel either from San Francisco or Seattle where both teams end up in Washington D.C. They cover 32 states and over 12,000 miles raising up to $500,000 a year.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijYBWk98h6UaHSIDBqU06ORjc5HWIx0ouPC60HDnx-6uu8n-pDq9USp1UVrk9_TPWdwBqj3fDquWm0Oq4y9-7jSjZ2LMWYlQmreRoHEa0D_bXGZu3zRtWrggwuAb3jvc_dLapXzq9hCFY/s1600/100_7229.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijYBWk98h6UaHSIDBqU06ORjc5HWIx0ouPC60HDnx-6uu8n-pDq9USp1UVrk9_TPWdwBqj3fDquWm0Oq4y9-7jSjZ2LMWYlQmreRoHEa0D_bXGZu3zRtWrggwuAb3jvc_dLapXzq9hCFY/s320/100_7229.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">And each year the team comes and stops off at Arc of Amador and Calaveras where they are greeted with my friendly face and the faces of my friends and colleagues. We treat these guys to a great lunch and they treat us with their friendliness and teach us about their bikes and their ride. This year they came through on June 14th. We all look forward to their visit next year!</div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">One of the things I love to do is going to car shows with my parents. My Dad has owned hot rods for most of my life. I have the great benefit of going along for the ride. Right now we have a '32 Ford Roadster that has a rumble seat. Either I ride shotgun or in the back. In any event, people turn their heads and I AM COOL. <br />
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The great thing about car shows is that you develop great friendships with people. People and their cars make the rounds through the car show circuit and everyone is wonderfully friendly. As a result, I have had the benefit of exercising my independence. </div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdnzmNH7JYyEm4lRz4mkgbgBVTfsceMEbtluKfH2M4TEA26mU3T9L-Ff6p-G9V2sV2QkghpbAhEVVkuWQFUVv4nocoTO-B9jmyxcAwUG5D4tJNt3r29g96qkRMjIEjx8zGF1FWBJhvIg8/s1600/100_7129.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdnzmNH7JYyEm4lRz4mkgbgBVTfsceMEbtluKfH2M4TEA26mU3T9L-Ff6p-G9V2sV2QkghpbAhEVVkuWQFUVv4nocoTO-B9jmyxcAwUG5D4tJNt3r29g96qkRMjIEjx8zGF1FWBJhvIg8/s320/100_7129.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">It's not uncommon for me to take off on my own for hours at a time and talk to people about their cars, buy a soda, or haggle for a t-shirt. It doesn't matter if it's a 50 car or a 2,000 car, car show. I roll on my own. People know me and I know them so I feel comfortable and my parents do too. I'm very popular at shows and people keep an eye out for me. It must be my good looks. Anyways, the great thing is that people become comfortable with Downs. I make a great ambassador.</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">So, more about the cars, the rumble seat is getting a little old for me so I'm on the lookout for something with a little more leg room. I need to start haggling for a nice '40 sedan...preferably a convertible. This is how I want to roll. :)</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2ZNnDkvgd5lQ4PKLkZZyOL3xHIj5O_0aX1bYNVwXP99WSn9pw5GdjhbmhUaV0xJ46PbqnkpDlJcEaY9oeLVo-ekNP6_wq5ya6hf1jEaMTlPY45L33o8e4cjtTUtNYqAZdJZua3z9BawI/s1600/100_7111.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: right; height: 227px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 296px;"><img border="0" height="240px" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2ZNnDkvgd5lQ4PKLkZZyOL3xHIj5O_0aX1bYNVwXP99WSn9pw5GdjhbmhUaV0xJ46PbqnkpDlJcEaY9oeLVo-ekNP6_wq5ya6hf1jEaMTlPY45L33o8e4cjtTUtNYqAZdJZua3z9BawI/s320/100_7111.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div>Stacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00679058887478557342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051003745421138678.post-58288516396744270052011-03-23T18:30:00.000-07:002011-03-25T10:02:42.241-07:00Let Me Introduce Myself<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw-TVLi5UMeroKQVRQ9Qfk3TokI9EyHJnbzXisGchmbz4NDR6XhSCTpPexvyZmvRpuG48xg-fNXLDWuLDyMtqwrruKu-NuHnQClPmuiF1Hr02P7JFdfq7wjstpNdefxN6EsVXl6U41FOY/s1600/81.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="183" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw-TVLi5UMeroKQVRQ9Qfk3TokI9EyHJnbzXisGchmbz4NDR6XhSCTpPexvyZmvRpuG48xg-fNXLDWuLDyMtqwrruKu-NuHnQClPmuiF1Hr02P7JFdfq7wjstpNdefxN6EsVXl6U41FOY/s400/81.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>My name is Patrick and I'm a pretty special guy. <br />
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Probably the first thing that people notice about me is that I have Down syndrome. It doesn't define me, it's just something I have. I don't suffer from it, I thrive with it. I have also been diagnosed as being legally deaf, since the bones in my ears didn't develop normally. Much to my family's and doctor's surprises, I read lips as I grew up (I wasn't diagnosed as being deaf until I was a teen). My speech is okay, but the deafness doesn't help - however, I have been known to say some very funny things.<br />
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The most important things you should know about me is that I have a mom and dad, a brother, a sister, a sister-in-law, two nieces, and a huge family. I am a person. I am loved, and I give love. I can be hurt, but I don't hurt others. I am different, but not less.<br />
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I am 33 years old and was born on April Fools Day. So, that means I'll be 34 very soon. So, in honor of my upcomiong birthday, here is a list of my favorite things:<br />
<ul><li>Birthdays, of course. I celebrate weeks...even months in advance</li>
<li>Hot rods - my Dad has a '32 roadster</li>
<li>Cooking class at ARC</li>
<li>Working at my job</li>
<li>My border collie, Deuce</li>
<li>Anything having to do with Hawaii - which I call "Aloha"</li>
<li>Taking lots and lots of photos</li>
<li>Being independent as much as possible</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me when I was a little guy</td></tr>
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