Got this in my cache one night. Thought I would share with you all... It will impact some of you more so than others.  I know it affected me pretty deeply.

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Dear "Black Echo",

I found your site while searching the web for sites dealing with TBI. I was very much surprised when I clicked on your site. As you may or may not have known, TBI is a medical term for Traumatic Brain Injury, from which my wife, Cathy, now suffers. She was involved in a automobile accident last year where her '94 Ford Taurus was rear ended by a full size Ford pick up truck. Even though she was wearing her seat belt, her head was snapped back into the seat and her brain was literally 'shaken' around inside of her skull by the impact, the doctors say it was 'bruised', which is the best definition they can give me for the condition.

She is having trouble now, sometimes it affects her, sometimes bad, other days are good, some are like it never even happened. It was on one of the better days that we both decided to find some sites on the Internet dealing with TBI.

We were looking for some other TBI related sites maybe for support or stories of inspiration, something that we could use, and we found yours.

SPO, "Where TBI lives and screams"

My initial thought was "My God! This must be a very bad case of TBI!" and I had to click on it.

And then I thought that your site was some form of sick joke. Actually, once I got a little bit into your site, I was very confused. I must say, I had no idea that TBI was a form of fuel injection (not being much of what you would call a 'car nut') for motors. I thought that you were going to give experiences of some form of severe TBI trauma! My thoughts when we got deeper into your site was "How does this all relate to brain injury and recovery"?

But I think I know, it just kind of opened up the deeper we got into investigating your site. I kept reading, with interest, and I found your stories of your own accidents and I thought "Yeah, maybe here is where I'll find out about TBI" but I didn't.

However, we did have a very good laugh, your humor, and your stories of survival and of your relationship with God are nothing short of inspirational. I think that my wife and I both have a new found respect for life and all that it entails, just as you apparently do. You have helped us to realize that things sometimes do happen for a reason, and that you can't control what happens to you, but that you can control how you live with it.

It is not important what happens to you in life, it's important in how you deal with what happens to you in life. That is what really counts. I respect your ability to project that in your writings and in your own personal philosophy.

So, while I found nothing related to what I was searching for (TBI, the medical term), I did find much to respect, and much to admire, and if TBI (the automotive stuff) has a personal champion like you, well, it's not doing too bad in and of itself, is it?

I hope you make it scream or whatever you are trying to do with it. You have almost made my wife and I scream with hysterical laughter several times.

They say that laughter is the best medicine. God bless you, Black Echo, for if laughter is the best medicine, you are then truly one of the world's greatest doctors. You have made both my wife and I laugh and cry and feel better and rejoice in what we have. For that, we are indebted to you a great deal.

God's peace."

John Scott Stuart

P.S. I drive a '78 Dodge half ton, blue, 318 with a carb on it, so I doubt that your automotive advice will work for me, still, it does sound like you know what you are talking about!

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