KTB

Well, we met Kevin T. Browning this weekend. He is someone who reached out to Dad on Facebook. Originally we thought he was a friend of a friend, but he's not. Instead of giving more background I will just tell his story.

Kevin suffered a traumatic brain injury about a year or two ago. He was riding his bike on a trail and the bike suddenly stopped on its own and he crashed face first into a metal guard rail. His face was really messed up and he had a brain injury. There were some significant dates involved that coincided with ours, like the 16th I think was the day of his accident in March, the hospital was 18 miles away in his life flight, etc. He shares a birthdate with me (not the year), etc. etc.

Anyway, because of his experience with the brain injury, three different people sent him the article about your accident. One of his good friend's names is Jacob Aulisi so that was another coincidence. He had ties to water polo as well since one of his physical therapist's had been a water polo player. This PT water polo player died at a young age as well but from a pulmonary embolism. (He told us how that came about, but I forgot that story).

All of these "coincidences" caused him to seek counsel from his Catholic priest, asking if he should reach out to us. The priest told him to do whatever he wanted, so he tracked down Dad on Facebook.
He sent us a picture once of a golf hole he sponsored at a golf outing in Florida for you. I always wondered if he just saw that and took a picture of it but I guess he was the one who sponsored it in your memory.

I'm not sure how old he is, but I would say he is in his 50's. He is well-to-do-he has a background as an ER nurse so he's seen lots of trauma and he has stories of staying with dying kids in the ER. Currently he works for a law firm which causes him to travel 3 weeks out of the month to hospitals to advise them on safety practices to avoid lawsuits, etc. He just sold a second home he owned in Florida for quite a bit of money (I am telling you this to back up my "well-to-do" statement). His parents sent him to a prep school in Miami when he was 14 so it sounds like he grew up with money even though he had an excellent work ethic. His dad died recently but his mom is still alive.

When he was telling us about his accident, he said he could see his dad holding his dead grandson and telling him to "Hurry up!" (He said he always told him that because it took him a long time to get ready for things).He told us that the only thing he remembers the day of the accident was dropping off some cards in the mailbox. That was a comfort to me somewhat because hopefully you had no idea what was going on, although I would like to know someday what made you cross the center line, of course. But he said he doesn't remember any pain or anything or any details of the accident.

Since he was in the area for the day, he spent the day with Dad walking around Ann Arbor and wanted to take us out to dinner. We met at Texas Roadhouse and he was fun to talk to. He messed with the waiter a little bit which was funny too. The waiter left the check folder thing on the table and
when he came to pick it up, Kevin told him that he didn't put the credit card in yet. The next time he came around, the waiter asked if it was ready and Kevin told him to guess if it was in there or not. The waiter (who was awkward anyway) said, "This is getting increasingly awkward." It was hilarious.

I think that's all I will say for now. Love you!