A accident in birth left Patrick with Cerebral Palsy, he started therapy 1 ½ years later, trunk, abs, legs and neck.
His favorite T.V. show when he was 7 was The Incredible Hulk, his grandma told him that the actor who played the Hulk had a handicap too, She just didn't say what it was. Later when he was 11 he seen Conan the Barbarian in the Theater, That was it, he was hooked for life. His dad got him some 4 lbs. dumb bells and a rowing machine. In the 7th grade Patrick couldn't get enough of the weight room at his Jr. High. After school he would drive his electric wheelchair home and pick up the latest issue of M&F. Every year of high school Patrick would take weight lifting. A few times he came close to passing out in class.
He does cardio on a bike for a hour to hour and a half a day. He trains at FLEX GYM of Colorado Springs with his trainer Dennis James.
Patrick is always looking for ways to get better.
Patrick's Cerebral Palsy
During my mother's pregnancy she had X-rays that said the baby was too big to be delivered naturally, Across the X-rays it read in big red letters "vaginal delivery impossible".On the night I was born my mother was taken to the emergency room of the same hospital that held the X-rays, all her regular doctors where off duty.
My father tried to tell the doctor that was working about the X-rays, he would not listen and told my father to "get out the way and that he was the doctor."
I was pulled with forceps and because of that my mother started bleeding profusely. Not breathing, the doctor tossed me into one of those plastic baskets and left me on the floor, while he and the nurses tried to stop my mother from bleeding.
I had to wait for the pediatrician to come from his home to get me to start breathing. During that time I developed Cerebral Palsy.
Cerebral Palsy is not a manifested phenomenon; it comes from lack off oxygen to the brain causing damage to the cerebral nerve. There are different degrees of Cerebral Palsy, depending on the amount of damage to the nerve. Anything that deprives the brain from oxygen can lead to Cerebral Palsy.
