Michelle Thornberry Patterson

30/01/2025

Any of my songwriting homies doing February Album Writing Month? Come find me.

11/01/2025

Mine. ❤️❤️

29/12/2024

Chrimuh 2024. It was a blast and it’s a wrap!

25/12/2024

Surprise! Merry Christmas! We have a song release gift for you today! This song is dear to us, as are the people it was written for. If you have been to one of our recent Hope Shows, you have heard it and now we want you to HAVE the demo version of it! Flower That Blooms In The Night will be the title song for a project we have been lovingly working on for a couple of years. We have been curious about the miraculous resilience that exists inside of chronic sufferers. We have been interviewing people we know who live in this space. They have been so generous with their stories and we have learned so much.We are not interested in writing sad songs about suffering. There are plenty of those. We are interested in creating art about resilience and intimacy, about impossible places of desolation where hope pushes it’s relentless blooms out of dry ground.We will keep you posted on our progress, we have some special things planned for you. But for now, the demo version of this song is streamable everywhere. Send it to someone you know who is impossibly resilient.Love,Barry & Michelle

19/12/2024

Yer Mom Band sings a Christmas carol. The words to this song!! Oh my! Happy memories singing with my homies.

Yer Mom sings What Child is This in preparation for their performance at the UPCC in Woodland Park, Sunday, Dec 18 at 3 pm

14/12/2024

Oh man, this New York Times article by on the ways people around us react/respond to our suffering is right on the money. She gives us three categories of hard responders: minimizers, teachers and solvers (I’m a solver👍). Then she gives insight into what kinds of responses are kind and helpful to a suffering person. I concur with her claims. If you love a suffering person, give it a read. I’ll post the link in my stories.

After years of living with stage IV cancer, I have some suggestions.

12/12/2024

Part 2 of Sam’s Christmas dream come true! (The moment he realized they were for him.:)

12/12/2024

I feel so…seen.

08/12/2024

Ten years ago, Sam left this note to “Santa” on the stairs for any old mom to find. We already had the plan in place. 😀 Sam has been drumming since he was 10 and toured with us as our drummer on two tours!

04/12/2024

Locals! If you would like a little Christmas music (with some Ursula thrown in🧜‍♀️) come on out tonight for a short vocal showcase and show my sweet singers some love and applause!❤️🎄❤️🎤

02/12/2024

28/11/2024

Locals! Come on out next Wednesday to hear some of this semester’s students! I am so proud of them and excited to be able to work some Christmas into our showcase. If you are interested in taking with us, this is a great chance for you to catch our vibe!

24/11/2024

It’s ‘s Gotchya Day! Five years with my tiny dictator!!🥰

22/11/2024

Today is my 1 year anniversary of contracting Parsonage Turner Syndrome. It is a rare disease, diagnosed in 1 in every 50,000 people. It is an autoimmune response to surgery, childbirth, a vaccine or a virus. In my case, it was a stomach virus. I woke up at 2am, thinking I was having a heart attack but on the wrong side. I know how to handle pain, but this was OTHER. By the time I got to the ER, I was howling with the worst pain I have ever experienced. It felt like a ball of razors was turning inside me. Medical journals call PTS pain “severe and excruciating.” The ER got it under “control”with pain meds & I asked for steroids. 3 days later, I couldn’t use my right arm properly. My neurosurgeon diagnosed Parsonage Turner, as evidenced by extreme pain followed by paralysis. He said I would need physical therapy but that I should be fine. 6 days later, I became part of the 30% of PTS patients who have a recurrence on the opposite side. It was terrifying to think that I would not be able to use either one of my arms. I got on a bigger dose of steroids & the paralysis process was stopped on the left side.
I was already a chronic pain/neuropathy patient before PTS & now I had a whole new realm of pain & disability to navigate.
I began a regime of so much pt, nerve work with my amazing chiropractor, tens units, heat, injections, so much medicine & SO much help from my family. I still need to do all of these things.
I joined a PTS support group & discovered that I am one of the lucky ones. Some PTS patients can’t breathe properly because of the affect on their diaphragm, some can’t use their hands & some suffer from severe muscle wasting that results in lifelong excruciating pain. All of us live with the knowledge that it can happen again at any time.
I hit my 1 year mark with gratitude that it hasn’t struck again. I stay far away from sick people & have to manage my fear of viruses daily. I have to “roid up” for any of my other medical procedures to stave off a PTS recurrence.
Posting so any other new PTS patient can find this & reach out. We are rare.

21/11/2024

It’s my boyfriend’s 57th birthday today! Look at those dimples!🥰 He was 25 and I was 20 in this pic. We had just seen “So I Married an Axe Murderer” (classic!). So happy you were born, !!❤️❤️

20/11/2024

Well, Accelerated Recovery Systems is really getting festive.😆

19/11/2024

No one gets away with ANYTHING in our neighborhood.

12/11/2024

Mine. My heart does a happy jump when I see this picture.🥰 Here we have the two Russells (my son and my Dad) and my nephew Kemper, on a hunting trip together in Texas….that the boys asked Papa for.❤️❤️