JACKSONVILLE — A former Jacksonville resident is getting national exposure this month.
The 700 Club is airing a special Dec. 14 on CBS Channel 19-Tyler about Patti Foster, author and coma survivor.
“I am thrilled,” Foster said, “and am looking forward to passing along not only encouragement and hope, but inspiration from first-hand living through the trauma I have lived through.”
Foster, who also recently published a new book, was involved in a two-vehicle wreck June 18, 2002, which took the life of a Jacksonville High School graduate. Foster suffered severe head trauma and was in a coma for six weeks.
“Since then, I have fought to live again. It is a never-ending battle that I struggle with every day of my life. Severe head trauma doesn’t go away; you learn to cope with it and live with your deficits,” Foster said in an earlier interview.
The former radio personality in Texas, Louisiana, Indiana and Michigan currently speaks to church and corporate organizations across the country. Her first published work, “Getting Things Done: Successful Women Speak,” was a collaboration with a dozen other authors and speakers.
Foster’s newest book, “Amazing Faith,” is a spiritual look at how she and seven other authors used faith to get through certain traumas in their lives and how those events helped strengthen their faith in the Lord.
“My toughest times reveled to me the deepest truths. My motto now is MAD now,” Foster said. “Make A Difference now, because you don’t know how many days you have left or what kind of days you have left.”
A third book is slated for release soon, as well. “Santa Take Me Home: A Journey Back from Head Trauma” describes Foster’s struggles and the lessons she’s learned while traveling the road to recovery.”
“Getting Things Done: Successful Women Speak” and “Amazing Faith” are available for purchase at www.PattiFoster.com.
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