Today’s TBI tip: eliminate all sugar from your diet.

This is from a customer who had her head injury 6 weeks before I had mine. She crashed her mountain bike and doesn’t remember anything, but she thinks it was because her front tire went flat. She brought me her bike. I put a new tire on the front and had a hell of a time getting it to seat (tubeless), until I got a tip from my lineman buddy, who said to spray silicone around the seating point. Worked instantly. Now I’m waiting for new brake pads to arrive (disc brakes), because my lineman buddy test rode the thing, and was disappointed with the brakes. The customer is fine with waiting, she paid for half the job today, and we have MUCH to talk about, but not as much as I thought when I first met her.

She was a customer of the OTHER shop before her accident. She has been a professional road bike racer, before that a model, and after that, she’s was a 911 dispatch operator, then unemployed, and now cleans houses. She has an eating disorder and menopause. She’s going through a divorce. Does this sound like a person who should be dishing out nutrition advice? I was not eating much sugar before my head injury, but certainly have been since. Also, I’m a coffee junkie.